Unreviewed screenings, current reads, links, recommendations, free talk, radio webcast, questions, thoughts, informal conversation, anything...

On the French website of the Caen Ciné-Club , there is a great synopsis of the taxonomy developped by Gilles Deleuze in L'image-Mouvemen...

Shukujo to hige / The Lady and the Beard (1931/Ozu Yasujiro/Japan) ++ 19th silent film made at the Shochiku Kamata studio, shot in 8 days. 7...

I'm a contrarian all year round on this blog, thus for the fun of participating in Jim Emerson's Contrarianism blogathon at Scanners...

For the 3rd time the Directors Lounge (8 - 18 february 2007) offers a place to showcase experimental videoartists from around the world, i...

Unreviewed screenings, current reads, links, recommendations, free talk, radio webcast, questions, thoughts, informal conversation, anything...

My notes on radio broadcast : L'avventura on France Culture with Laure Adler . (offline now) FORMATION Inspired by Antonioni : L'Ecl...

Another contribution to the "Contemplative Cinema blogathon" at Unspoken Cinema . My notes on Gus Van Sant's text " The ...

2nd post for the Contemplative Cinema Blogathon at Unspoken Cinema . Continuation from Là-bas (2006/Chantal Akerman/Belgium/France) In Fe...

This post is my contribution to the Contemplative Cinema Blogathon . Check Unspoken Cinema for all the updated contributions and the roundt...

I'm reluctant to make my top this year because I don't have a favorite masterpiece... I feel I have yet to watch the best ones this ...

Unreviewed screenings, current reading, links, recommendations, free talk, questions, thoughts, informal conversation, anything... comments ...

Looking back on the Film Criticism Blogathon . Comments on As a Preface: Andy's Letters to the "Young Turks" 3:1 (Or something...

Notes from : La Condition Critique by Maurice Blanchot (in Le Nouvel Observateur #6, 1950, republished in Trafic #2) Even if critics think ...

Susan Sontag : "It would be hard to find any reputable literary critic today who would care to be caught defending as an idea the old a...

The Film Criticism Blog-a-Thon hosted by Andy Horbal Check others' contributions and comments at No More Marriages! all weekend (Friday...

Counter-Canon : another viewing recommendation list From the reaction of Zach Campbell at Elusive Lucidity to the articles in Film Comment ...

To put it plainly, "complacency" is the contrary of "being critical". It's the censorship of the Political Correctne...

Screenville's Cinema-specific web search engine (see sidebar too) Thanks to Robert Davis at Errata who pointed to this new feature at ...

Continuation from page 1 and 2 . Pan's Labyrinth (2006/Del Toro) Pan's magic book. Ofelia can only read it when she's alone (i...