Except that this 1940 title card has…I don’t know, a vibe. The starkness, the shadows, the monochrome sheen, the deco moderne lettering, the odd sideways markings on the road, the fake authenticity of it.
Gentle Parenting FableLast night Hollywood Elsewhere sat down with Marc Turtletaub‘s Jules (Bleecker Street), a quiet little fable about a vaguely flaky,...
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Annoying Beefalo on Baltic BeachLast night I drove all the way to Pleasantville’s Jacob Burns Film Center (45 minutes) to see Christian Petzold‘s Afire....
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Better Quality “Romper Stomper” Gang Fight Scene27 months ago I posted a six-and-a-half-minute version of the legendary gang fight sequence from Geoffrey Wright‘s Romper Stomper (’92),...
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Irving Pichel’s “Miracle of the Car Window”Three or four weeks ago the driver’s side window in my VW Passat gave up the ghost. It went down...
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Curious Silence From Team WoodyJordan Ruimy is reporting today what most of us have been presuming all along. One, widespread Stalinist obstinacy about Woody...
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Infuriating “Pot au Feu” StasisI’ve been moaning and groaning for weeks about the seemingly unfortunate fate of Tran Anh Hung’s The Pot au Feu,...
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