Spitball Army

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“I love you. Ever since that first day at the convent, when I saw you playing volleyball with the nuns, I couldn’t help myself.” – Spoken dialogue in Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets.

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Approximate playing time: 77 minutes.

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Approximate playing time: 75 minutes.

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The actors fought with such vigor that the rear wall nearly collapsed. Griffith kept cameras rolling, breath held, digits crossed.

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“The love strain is still heard above the land’s miserere.” – An intertitle seen during a viewing of The Birth of a Nation on Turner Classic Movies.

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A few nights ago, I dreamt I was Sidney in Sweet Smell of Success, being verbally humiliated by Burt Lancaster.

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Click on the images to see a larger view. New Tale of Zatoichi (1963) is the third in the film series featuring Shintaru Katso as the wandering blind masseur. Zatoichi is also a skilled swordsman with a violent past. This is the first Zatoichi installment filmed in color. The IMDb page for this film can […]

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I received my long- and eagerly-awaited package from Criterion today: an original sketch by artist Jason Polan, of one of my past Criterion Collection purchases.  The subject of the drawing was to be a surprise and, happily, it was of a film I am fond of -> Stanley Donen’s 1963 thriller Charade, a classic Hollywood film starring […]

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Hipster watches from behind his square lenses with a cold espresso. I glide by with a steadicam gaze, then pan wide, with scone.

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