A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Q-rais, “The Lost Breakfast” (2015) Where some cartoonists treat the weekday early morning ritual of getting up and getting ready to go to work, including the…
Bill Tytla, “Little Audrey – Tarts and Flowers” (1950) Part of a series of cartoons about a cute kindergarten-aged girl called … well, what else? ……
French and French-language Films
Wladyslaw Starewicz, “The Mascot / Fétiche Mascotte ” (1933) An amazing and brilliant short work of stop-motion animation, “The Mascot” is one of several masterpieces made…
Dave Fleischer, “Swing You Sinners!” (1930) A bizarre little cartoon short, filled with the most startling surreal imagery and mobile rubber-limbed characters typical of cartoons in…
French and French-language Films, Multi-media Presentations
Jean-Luc Godard, “The Image Book / Le Livre d’Image” (2018) At 84 minutes, in no way is this a long film, yet it’s far more demanding…
French and French-language Films
Alain Resnais, “Last Year at Marienbad / L’Année dernière à Marienbad” (1961) At times hilarious, and at other times maddeningly boring and repetitive, this film is…
Andrei Tarkovsky, “Zerkalo / The Mirror” (1975) For most viewers, Tarkovsky’s “The Mirror” won’t be the easiest film to follow: the narrative follows a stream-of-consciousness structure…
French and French-language Films
Gaspar Noe, “Climax” (2018) In the hands of Argentine-French director Gaspar Noe, a story about a group of young dancers hired to be part of a…
Fred Haines, “Steppenwolf” (1974) There was a period in the 1960s when this 1927 novel was the darling of the psychedelic counter-culture in the United States,…
Paul Thomas Anderson, “Inherent Vice” (2014) Director Paul Thomas Anderson must be commended for daring to tackle a Thomas Pynchon novel and managing to be faithful…