Miscellany

What else? Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint in Hitchcock's 1959 North by Northwest. Happy President's Day, whatever that is. I'm off to the Film Forum to catch the ineffable…

This has been a big week for conservatives weighing in on le cinema, what with, for one thing, National Review's Top 25 Conservative Movies of the past who the hell…

I hope nobody takes this personally or anything, but I've got to admit it: I'm not crazy about memes, or being tagged for them, or whatnot. Now I certainly do…

In the "O Tempora! O Mores!" category:For all of the anarchic energy of his films, Bunuel led an orderly life and made his movies the same way. ''He gave me…

Andy Griffith in A Face In The Crowd, 1957, Elia Kazan

It began pretty recently, so I'm not going to moan along the lines of "when was he gonna get around to telling us," but out feisty and knowledgeable commenter who…