And the angels burst out laughing: MOSCOW-PETUSHKI (Year of the Month)
The last words of Anton Chekhov before he died were what? You remember? He said…
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IVAN THE TERRIBLE, pt. 1 (Year of the Month)
The real Ivan IV was “Terrible” in the sense that the Old Testament God was…
SUMMER HOURS (Year of the Month)
Wouldn’t you know A.O. Scott has already written the perfect reflection on this movie? Here’s…
Cannes Winners, 2018
A quick recap of the various Cannes awards winners, from what was, by all accounts,…
B.S. Johnson’s THE UNFORTUNATES (Year of the Month)
…how can I place his order, his disintegration? Let’s tell a story: You’re a struggling young…
Three ways of looking at FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (Year of the Month)
“…part Godard, part Three Stooges” –Jonathan Romney, Film Comment There are so, so many ways of…
“Let’s say there was a house…” MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (Year of the Month)
With its simultaneous impressions of abundance and incompletion—its profusion of abandoned and regenerated stories, stories…
THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA (Year of the Month)
Was there a more consistent source of humor for Soviet artists in the 1920s than the…
KWAIDAN (Year of the Month)
Japan was the best thing that ever happened to Lafcadio Hearn. The half-Irish, Greek-born, London-educated…
Towards a book as big as the world: LIFE A USER’S MANUAL (Year of the Month)
A few years ago, while in Paris, I went on a pilgrimage to find a…