For the 100th anniversary of Ingrid Bergman's birth—my 100th blog post. Thanks to all my readers and for all the positive feedback I've received in the past three years. I just re-upped with my hosting service so I guess you're in for another year of...
Film disc collectors often talk guiltily, or regretfully, or occasionally scornfully, about "double-dipping"—buying a new Blu-ray edition of a film previously purchased on DVD or on an inferior Blu-ray. But if there was ever a case for it (as well as for owning a multi-region player),...
My fall 2013 encounter with Rossellini has transpired in a strange order...
In case it wasn't obvious from my last post, I seem to have a new addiction and it's the films of Roberto Rossellini. At the moment the more formalist auteurs seem like weaksauce to me compared to the way that Rossellini challenges and reconsiders formal...
A ball started rolling for me when I saw that restored print of Rome, Open City at TIFF in September. It was the first Rossellini film that I'd ever seen and I found it simply devastating —a much more harrowing, yet illuminating, emotional experience than...