The little white attic

1/ Does anyone read the Book of Job without feeling disturbed by the cruelty and callousness of God? Why does God, for no reason, take every...

Before we begin, I’m going to say that I’m talking about plays in the broad sense: not only live performances but also texts and filmed play...

One film per director.  Persona (dir. Ingmar Bergman)   Sunset Boulevard (dir. Billy Wilder)  Ran (dir. Akira Kurosawa)  Casablanca (dir....

1/ After Kokoro , I read 3 other books, without blogging about them: Sarashina Nikki or As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams by a lady known as T...

1/ A few days ago I watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s again, probably the 3rd time.  My bf had never seen the film before, but knew about the ...

I’m reading Sidney Lumet’s Making Movies , which I think is a very good and enjoyable book, especially for aspiring film directors.  Look a...

1/ Today I came across this video about Tarkovsky. It is a great video essay, with excellent choice of shots: If you don’t like or haven’...

I’ve just come across this ranking: https://hyperallergic.com/425499/48-ingmar-bergman-films-ranked/   I don’t agree, of course. So here’s ...

“It was striking of the children, at all events, to kiss me inveterately with a kind of wild irrelevance and never to fail—one or the other...

My 1st video essay, about how to film a dialogue scene and what Ingmar Bergman did in Persona .  Also: what if Persona had been cut the con...

Generally I don’t consider myself a horror fan. But here are the films I like:  The Innocents (1961), dir. Jack Clayton  Eyes Without a F...

I’ve just watched The Apartment the 3rd time, and I’m crazy about Billy Wilder again. There was a time I named Billy Wilder as my no.1 f...

1/ This is a video comparing a scene from Persona and from Robert Altman’s 3 Women : https://www.facebook.com/TheFilmSnob1/videos/214314253...

Noel Simsolo’s book about Billy Wilder in the Masters of Cinema series is delightful to read. It reminds me of why I love Billy Wilder so mu...

After Ingmar Bergman and Orson Welles, I’m now reading about Federico Fellini by Angel Quintana, in the Masters of Cinema series of Cahiers...

Currently reading Masters of Cinema: Ingmar Bergman by Jacques Mandelbaum.  This is an interesting passage:  “… we cannot discuss the st...