Orhan Pamuk, my favorite author, was just awarded the Nobel Prize in literature for his novels ( Read more... )

I just got back from two weeks in Amsterdam with my wife and daughters. I'd never been before and it was just marvelous ( Read more... )

Watched this piece of fluff last night ( Read more... )

I get on these tears where I have to see several of a directors movies, all in a row. I've done this before with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, but there is so much to mine in the Archers' work, that it bears coming back to again and again ( Read more... )

- OK, I'd been avoiding this one for a few years. Why exactly, I'm not really sure ( Read more... )

Repeat *not* being bugged, or so we are assured by the Airforce man in the shiny blue suit ( Read more... )

Though I wish I'd gotten the bedtime story from Tilda for my daughters (who adore her), the headline auction item seems to have been worth seeing ( Read more... )

John Wayne is one of my least favorite Americans, a horse’s ass of a man. And yet, having stated that, I'm readying myself for the flames ( Read more... )

Yes - Pacino's Cruising from 1980 ( Read more... )

An article in the Times business section said that the real challenge in making movies is not finding creative artists, but in finding the best trailer directors and marketing executives, because "people decide to see movies based on the stregnth of the trailer and the marketing campaign ( Read more... )