Playing With a Different Region
Behold! I present to you the Panasonic AG-W1 VHS deck. This is a multi-region VHS player. The region codes that you find on commercial DVD and Blu-Ray discs today have … Continue reading
The Kings in New York
It’s as regular as the spring thaw – someone writes a story about the Kings Highway Theater in Brooklyn. The Voice and Brooklyn Paper have each published their take on … Continue reading
Trouble at the Cinémathèque québécoise
The Cinémathèque québécoise — the main repository for all film, television and video production in the province of Quebec — is in the midst of controversy over its future direction. … Continue reading
The Dimness of Lumeneck
Welles said it on the radio every week for years: “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” Calling this evil, exactly, doesn’t seem right, and I’m pretty … Continue reading
“Hornpipe” – C. Day Lewis
Aside from having read a few poems here and there – I found “Hornpipe” in Kingsley Amis’s The Amis Anthology: A Personal Choice of English Verse – I know very … Continue reading
Too Much Benton
So far, my only serious complaint about the Orson Welles Centennial Symposium and Celebration, happening now at Indiana University, is that its occurrence in early May kept me from attending … Continue reading
Vorwarts by Werner Herzog
I am reviewing the new University of Minnesota Press edition of Of Walking in Ice, Werner Herzog’s chronicle of his 1974 journey from Munich to Paris to visit an ailing … Continue reading
