I don't think coherence is really the point in Wong's films any more than in other Hong Kong films of the late 1980s and early 1990s which privilege...
So far I've seen fourteen of his twenty-three features (nearly all of those from 2006-on). Some I think are brilliant, some diverting, and some leave...
You can never know everything about a topic, so anything you say about it will be necessarily tentative. In the case of the Nouvelle Vague, there are...
That's not all what my presumption was. My presumption was that, after watching a certain number of Disney animated films (let's half a dozen at the...
Disparities of this sort reflect the ability of US distributors to muscle reviewers. Sony Pictures Classics, for instance, has been pretty effective...
Is that really their job, to keep hyping a film as it moves further downstream? Claire Denis has been a festival director her entire career; I don't...
I've not found any evidence that Kael reviewed Superman IV but here's the opening paragraph of her review of Superman III, which is reprinted in her...
If you believe these metaphors are making your argument clearer, I'm afraid they're having the opposite effect. It makes no sense to liken taste as a...
Yes, and the work of this sociologist (which has been profitably utilized by film theorists such as Marijke de Valcke in her work on film festivals)...
Just because... La Punition ou Les mauvaises rencontres (Jean Rouch, 1962) cold The Bigamist (Ida Lupino, 1953) cold Sennan Asbestos Disaster (Hara Kazuo, 2017) cold
The last book I read was... Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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