In Memoriam

The Hunger, 1982, with Ann Magnuson and David Bowie. I can't pin down just when…

Woody Allen and the empty string quartet in Bananas, 1971; one of Hamlisch's most raucous,…

'Power and freedom.' Coupled together, these two words are repeated three times in Vertigo. First,…

In Osaka Elegy (Naniwa ereji), Kenji Mizoguchi, 1936 In Throne of Blood (Kumonoso-jo), Akira Kurosawa,…

With John Garfield in Gentleman's Agreement, Elia Kazan, 1947. The image says a lot, I…

In the film that, at the age of thirteen, I used to exclusively refer to…