The little white attic

(Note that this is a list of favourites, so some great films may be absent, such as Rashomon or Tokyo Story ).  (A photo of Fellini and B...

My favourite film critic, whom I always turn to after watching a film, is Roger Ebert. Even though I don’t always agree with him, I share wi...

Having just watched again La Dolce Vita and Amarcord , I’m thinking about Fellini’s detractors. He’s overrated, they say, as though it meant...

These days, as I started to like Mizoguchi, I’ve been thinking about how different he was from Ingmar Bergman—Ingmar Bergman was fascinated ...

Here are my notes from Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Films Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know by Jennifer Van Sijll:  1...

Last night, I watched Kenji Mizoguchi's  A Geisha , aka Gion Bayashi .  It is a great and heartbreaking film, sad without being sentime...

The Dance of Reality is a very weird film. By that, you must understand that it’s very strange, bizarre and extreme, because I think I ha...

Source  Brief summary: Pinky Rose (real name Mildred) is enamoured of her colleague and roommate Millie (another Mildred), who is perfe...

Sometimes it’s sad to think about the reputation of some great artists. Ingmar Bergman has always been seen as the gloomy Swede, forever dea...

Jane Austen died 200 years ago today. Why do you like Jane Austen? Which of her works are the best in your opinion, and which are your favo...