Screens

History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake

Political violence and historical fiction

Sep 12 •

A Bit of a Want

Friendship and salvation in Hear My Song (1991)

Jul 14 •

That Gum You Like

David Lynch will never go out of style

Jan 17 •

Listening to The Brutalist

Nothing is of its own explanation

Jan 15 •

The Trip to Poetry

Travels with Steve and Rob, and Wordsworth and Coleridge, oh my.

Dec 2, 2024 •

The only winning move is not to play, or: Preferring not to with Herman Melville and Matthew Broderick.

Sep 6, 2024 •

Time is the fire

A summer update, with notes on two films by Leos Carax

Jul 1, 2024 •

I Hope to Understand in a Few Days

A belated essay on Lars von Trier's 2003 film The Five Obstructions

Apr 1, 2024 •

Maestro e Commendatore

Michael Mann's lonely men. A review of Ferrari, with reference as usual to the Aubrey-Maturin series of Patrick O'Brian.

Jan 8, 2024 •

The trouble and desire of Generation X

Nov 4, 2023 •

Life During Wartime

Stop Making Sense, then and now

Oct 17, 2023 •

The Prisoner revisited--a personal reinterpretation of a very personal show.

Sep 3, 2023 •

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