Vague Visages on Agnès Varda’s 88th: ‘La Pointe Courte’
“How unusual to see a woman’s perspective on love presented so plainly as Varda does in ‘La Pointe Courte.'”
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Game of Thrones ‘Blood of My Blood’ (Recap)
“After the twin climaxes of last week’s Hodor reveal and Daenerys’ enflamed emergence in the preceding episode, it was only natural for HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ to need a bit of a breather.”
More Than Shadows #1: Series Introduction
“There will be unrequited love and monstrous desires amongst these essays.”
His Blazing Automatics: The ‘District 13’ Films, ‘Brick Mansions’ and Cultural Identity in Action
A Column on Action Films by Dylan Moses Griffin
Of Love and Other Demons: ‘Too Late Blues’ (John Cassavetes, 1961)
A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
Violently Tender: The Secret Humanism of Vincent Gallo’s ‘Buffalo ’66’
“Many critics object to what they perceive to be the film’s misogynist romanticism, but Billy is not simply the ‘beast’ to his good woman’s ‘beauty.'”
Studio Ghibli Forever: An Initiation – ‘Laputa: Castle in the Sky’
“It is a film for little humans (and big humans) that places hopefulness, imagination and kindness above all else.”