Lots of broken patterns this time. This week’s post comes “early”: I’ve fallen into a Saturday posting rhythm, but it’s only Thursday, and I’m back at it. And the content isn’t some dusty old conference paper unearthed from back in the day, but a (Zoom) talk I gave just yesterday (so the digital ink is […]
White Lies
My friend and (many years ago) former student, Wendy Adams, was kind enough to invite me to give a talk as part of the International Film Series that she runs at the College of Central Florida. And this seems like as good as anywhere to share what I had to say about To Kill a […]
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Film”: Version 2.0
Freshly online at Jump Cut, a reprint — with additional images — of an essay by Heather Ashley Hayes and myself on Django Unchained. PDF of the original essay can be found here.
The singer, not the song [Rerun Sunday]
That should probably be “The filmmaker, not the film” or “The screenwriter, not the script,” but somehow neither of those has the same ring to them. Anywho, a good friend posted a query to Facebook asking for people to name their favorite holiday movies. I chimed in with a joke answer . . . that, […]
Prelude to a . . . waitasec. What was the question again? [Rerun Sunday]
You can find a brief explanation of “Rerun Sunday” here. The post below originally appeared on 10 Feb 2007. [Possible mild spoilers ahead, depending on just how sensitive you are to these things.] Just came home from seeing The Departed at the glorious second-run theatre around the corner. And it was, in all sorts of […]