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Ride Lonesome | The Art Of Simplicity

I have a new motto for 2025, and perhaps for the rest of my life: keep it simple. The lack of simplicity has ruined...
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La Haine | It’s How You Land

Beginning and ending a movie with the same quote might seem like a cheesy thing to do. And maybe sometimes it is. But upon...
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Film Noir | Dreams And The Subconscious

Now that I have a region-free Blu-ray player, I've been able to cycle through my Columbia Noir boxsets. Film noir is a genre I’ve...
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The Undercover Man | Finding Clarity In A Mad World

Thank god for Tony Rayns, whose commentary for The Undercover Man made me realize what makes Joseph H. Lewis's aesthetic so interesting. Lewis wasn't...
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Eraserhead | A Call To Love Henry

Henry has the face and demeanor of a debilitated soul - hapless, dour, confused, drained, beleaguered. This world he inhabits - with its grey,...
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I Love You, David Lynch

The relationship one has with art is a special thing. Sometimes a painting or a piece of music or a film speaks to you...
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3 Film Noirs | Beyond the Femme Fatale

It can be tough to find your footing with film noir at the beginning of your cinephile journey. What can help you better understand...
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A Cinephile’s Guide to Film Noir

Welcome to the Cinephile's Guide to Film Noir. Here, you will find all the essential details about film noir for any budding cinephile who’s...
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Variety Lights (1950) | What Fellini learned from Neorealism

As Pauline Kael rightfully points out in her review, there are two particular sequences in Variety Lights that stand out. The first is when...
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A Place in the Sun (1951) | Torn between two selves

How beleaguering life can be - how we can feel we’re a nuisance, that we’re taking up other people’s space - how we fear...
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