Misfortunes of Imaginary Beings

Those of us of a certain age can remember when the phrase "foreign film" meant one thing: sex. Which was something the Productio...

Seeing Julian Beck as Tiresias in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Oedipus Rex reminded me of an excruciatingly boring evening I spent in Brookl...

Dirk Bogarde in Death in Venice I have nothing against slowness in movies if it leads to a satisfactorily immersive experience, but Deat...