Hitchcock's scenes from a marriage: "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1956)
I had the privilege and pleasure over the weekend of revisiting this, a Hitchcock film…
Glenn KennyApril 26, 2010
Winks like Sarah Palin. Does production numbers like Lady Gaga.
Who am I talking about? Who but Robot Maria, the evil cyber-alchemical doppelganger of sweet…
Glenn KennyApril 21, 2010
Out in the real world, in real time: Fassbinder's "Welt am Draht" ("World On Wire")
By the time he's become convinced that the world he inhabits is in fact just…
Glenn KennyApril 7, 2010
Lasagna.
Remember the final section of Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev? After Andrei's taken the vow of silence,…
Glenn KennyApril 5, 2010
While we're on the subject...
...of who's-the-madman-and-who's-the-physician, who's-the-subject-and-who's-the-object, lunatics-taking-over-the-asylum pictures...have you watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari again recently?This granddaddy…
Glenn KennyApril 1, 2010
Damned Damned Damned
One of the most significant DVD releases of the year will be hiding in plain…
Glenn KennyMarch 18, 2010
The Red Krayola with Art & Language and, briefly, Kathryn Bigelow
The most conspicuous writing on Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow's art-world past went up on the…
Glenn KennyMarch 17, 2010
The dark at the top, and at the bottom, of the stairs, or, there's always "Bigger Than Life"
Nicholas Ray and James Mason,Bigger Than Life, Ray, 1956 Two films of 1956 seem to…
Glenn KennyMarch 8, 2010
What makes "Lola" great
Having established that at one point in his career Andrew Sarris did indeed proclaim Max…
Glenn KennyFebruary 17, 2010