For his second film, Tarkovsky did not mess around, composing a massive three-hour-long epic about…
Author: Ryne Clos
Oeuvre: Tarkovsky: Ivan’s Childhood
Ivan’s Childhood’s major themes of sacrifice, fraternity and personal obsession with a single purpose—these ideas…
Left on Base in the Bush Leagues: by Gaylon H. White
While Left on Base in the Bush Leagues is a fascinating and worthwhile book on…
Mob Town
Mob Town is a good illustration of the challenges posed by a gangster film that…
Hippie: by Paulo Coelho
Worthwhile for its insights into the post-‘60s hippie movement where spiritual concerns had successfully muscled…
City of Devils: by Paul French
City of Devils is a brilliant, fast-paced must-read that relishes inhabiting the darkest alleys and…
The Cave
The Cave is a film not to be missed, centering the superhuman courage and ceaseless…
Oeuvre: Varda: The World of Jacques Demy
After releasing The World of Jacques Demy in 1995, Agnés Varda would take a six-year…
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
El Camino gambles that nostalgia for that 2013 feeling is just as good as propulsive…
Aesthetics Equals Politics: Edited by Mark Foster Gage
Aesthetics Equals Politics throws out the first ball in what could have been a provocative,…