Looking Closer
This year, IMAGE presented the tenth annual Denise Levertov award to someone who is more than an inspiration to me. Read more
This year, IMAGE presented the tenth annual Denise Levertov award to someone who is more than an inspiration to me. Read more
Two posts back, I gave you a challenge: Close your eyes. If I say the word “masculine,” who is the first familiar face that you see? Who’s the man? In this podcast on masculinity and action heroes, one of the panelists was particularly enthusiastic about a certain actor who's been seeing a lot of action... Read more
The following is a review of Iron Man 3 … in fiction. It’s the second installment in the new series I’m calling All Thumbs Video. The first installment featured a small cast of characters arguing about Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder. Now, some of them have returned, and a few new characters have stepped in. They’ve just been to a sneak preview of Iron Man 3, and they don’t agree about what they saw. My thoughts about the movie? I have... Read more
Close your eyes. If I say the word "masculine," who is the first familiar face that you see? Who's the man? Read more
Martin Scorsese is soul searching as he prepares (again) to film Shusaku Endo's masterpiece — "Silence." Read more
I’ll write a full review of "Upstream Color" in time. But it will take time. Consider this just a first-impression burst of enthusiasm. Believe me, you don’t want reviews to explain this movie to you before you see it. So, here are a few fumbling attempts to describe it without spoiling it… Read more
Just in case you missed them, here's a list of six distractions from the past few days. It's a parade of bizarre attractions starring... Quentin Tarantino, Steve Taylor, Donald Miller, Roman Coppola, Wes Anderson, Andrew Sullivan, Steve Martin, Edie Brickell, and a feast served by somebody named Babette. If you have work to do, avoid the following links at all costs... Read more
I’ve been dreaming of trying out a new venture in long-form film criticism — reviews as fiction. I plan to write them as speed-writing exercises, fiction published in first-draft form. And I’m dedicating this first episode to… well, you’ll see when you read it. Read more
“We started up an email friendship,” says Todd Rendleman, who teaches film history and aesthetics at Seattle Pacific University. He’s talking about his new book "Rule of Thumb: Ebert at the Movies," and how the book’s subject — legendary film critic Roger Ebert — came to write the forward. Read more
“A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.” – Roger Ebert, 1942-2013 (more…) Read more
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