The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

The following is my belated February entry for Blindspots . Jacques Demy announces the “movie”-ness of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg from its ...

A Christmas Tale

Nothing in A Christmas Tale is so bold and funny as its title, a decidedly bland arrangement of two words and an indefinite article that su...

Kings and Queen

Charting the various literary sources, mythologies, psychological studies and cinematic antecedents that inform Arnaud Desplechin's King...

Repulsion

Roman Polanski's English-language follow-up his acclaimed debut Knife in the Water is in some respects one of the all-time great horror...