One of my most enduring memories of being a child in elementary school centers around the upright piano in the grade 5/6 classroom. In a

“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.” —Miles Davis Fans of modem jazz owe the subject of this month’s review a

I’ve said it before. Who needs special effects when you’ve got the real world? Nothing is more spectacular than the natural world we’re born into,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVcEcGYw-Q Also worth checking out is Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922). There’s a high quality copy on YouTube, but with German intertitle cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuJRs9xvkPg

“…if we accept objective existence of the reflection— reflecting as it is given, we are obliged to conceive a mode of being different from that

Guido: You care—whatever happens to anybody happens to you. You’re really hooked into the whole thing. It’s a blessing. Rosalind: People say I’m just nervous….

Hey, it’s an actor’s life. Art may be immortal, but the bills still have to be paid. One minute you’re playing Hamlet, the next you’re

I didn’t understand Thelma & Louise. Or rather, I didn’t understand why Thelma & Louise had the impact it did. It’s not that I don’t

Alan Parker, I know you’re not out there reading this, but I apologize anyway. When I decided to check out Come See the Paradise—your recent

  “Do you know the secret of my success with tigers?” – Janet Frame If you weren’t sure that there really was such a thing

“A woman’s chastity is a sty in the Devil’s eye.” —Irish proverb “Lack of principle is my principle, vice my virtue, debauchery my asceticism, godlessness

This review is set up the way movies sometimes used to be: a short, followed by a double feature presentation. You remember shorts, don’t you?