The arresting, peculiar image below is from...a John Ford film. One of two I discuss in my latest Foreign Region DVD Report, over at The Auteurs' Notebook.
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I've added a new link to the blogroll at right: Dominion Post film reviewer Graeme Tuckett's new side (table) project, Bickipedia. For all things biscuit-y. World baked goods domination awaits.
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Aaron Sorkin imagines former President Jed Bartlet giving Candidate Obama a pep talk: BARTLET That was a hell of a convention. OBAMA Thank you, I was proud of it. BARTLET…
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Dave Kehr reviews the new Godfather Trilogy Blu-ray restoration (a restoration in consultation with original cinematographer Gordon Willis) for The New York Times: The effect is not unlike that of…
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You may ooze bile but you will teach the children by those books that you will be given and in the way that is needed by Russia. And as to…
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Louise Doughty on authors and public speaking: Most novelists are shy and retiring people; when we get up and read, we're like badgers who have to come up from our…
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