Philppe Mary, “Cinematic Microcosm and Cultural Cosmologies: Elements of a Sociology of the New Wave,” Cinema Journal 49, No. 4 (Summer 2010), 159-166. Despite what its abstract said, it felt like…
Vanessa R. Schwartz, “Who Killed Brigitte Bardot? Perspectives on the New Wave at Fifty,” Cinema Journal 49, No. 4 (Summer 2010), 145-152. This is a shorty but pithy essay in Cinema Journal‘s nouvelle…
An Education (2008, dir. Lone Scherfig) – Everyone seemed to love this one when it came out, and not without good reason. The positioning is what’s interesting about this one:…
It’s one you’re supposed to see, one that you should be embarrassed if you haven’t seen it, and its fingerprints are more than evident all over many films made since.…
Shoot the Piano Player should not be so playful for being made by a man who had been a critic before he made it. The attitude of critics nowadays is…
Jean-Luc Godard might be a genius. Certainly he’s an artistic genius, but he might also be an unqualified genius. Before Pierrot Le Fou, I had only seen Breathless, which he…
