The little white attic

My interest in butterflies extends no more than a casual acknowledgement of their beauty when I see one, so I usually don’t feel much when r...

The writing of Speak, Memory is wonderful, as expected, but once in a while, there’s a passage that just breaks my heart.  “Nominally, th...

“I know […] of a young chronophobiac who experienced something like panic when looking for the 1st time at homemade movies that had been ta...

The news depresses me. Social media depress me. People depress me.  I suppose that for lots of people, if having to name the kinds of peopl...

1/ My short experimental film Footfalls was screened at Viet Film Fest in California last Sunday.  It was mentioned here: http://vietceter...

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...

As Himadri made a list of Reasons to be happy, I’m going to make my own list (because why not?).  List of things that make me happy (inc...

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...

I’m still reading the Masters of Cinema series of Cahiers du Cinema.  Bill Krohn’s book about Stanley Kubrick isn’t particularly good. The...