Robert Conrad and Connie Stevens in Palm Springs Weekend, aka Troy Donahue Takes The Stairs, Taurog, 1963Remember when cinematic treatments of the romantic travails of 20-somethings looked like this? Whoa.…
Read More
Without qualification, except as noted: Preston Miller's Jones.Aaron Katz's Dance Party USA and Quiet City. Kentucker Audley's Team Picture (despite being slightly annoyed by its characters).Andrew Bujalski's Mutual Appreciation (despite feeling somewhat…
Read More
To any readers of this blog who are going to be in Manhattan or its general vicinity today, February 8, and/or tomorrow, February 9, I implore you: get thee to…
Read More
I don’t have much room this week and I want to spend most of it gushing over Slumdog Millionaire so let’s get started. Back in 2003, when the Incredibly Strange…
Read More
Bow down, puny mortals, to the great Dagmar Krause, here singing with Henry Cow, Vevey, 1976In case you're wondering about just which micro-budgeted artistic aggregation your humble blogger has zero…
Read More
In the extremely contentious comments thread to the post "The Cinema of Contingency: Notes on Swanberg," Don Lewis of Film Threat, a Swanberg defender, states, "I think that Joe's point…
Read More