Buchanan Rides Alone: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Budd Boetticher’s Existential Hangout Western
The issue with writing about westerns is that there’s just so many of them: John…
Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on the Ending of Stalker
“I love your eyes, my dear, their play so passionate and brightening. When a sudden…
Jokes for Retirement Parties: Jacob Klemmer on Norm MacDonald’s Bob Saget Roast (Year of the Month)
The only thing worse than a joke you can predict is a cruel insult you…
Interior Decorating: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on All That Heaven Allows (Year of the Month)
When I recall films I’ve seen and loved, my memory most often fixates first on…
Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Night of the Hunter
Robert Mitchum’s performance in The Night of the Hunter, as the reverend Harry Powell, flies…
Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Millenium Actress
Satoshi Kon left us on August 24, 2010; and he left the cinema world with…
The Root of All Evil: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Trading Places and L’argent, The Twin Radical Films of 1983
Robert Bresson was born in rural France in 1901, John Landis in Chicago in…
Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on Sam Fuller’s Strange Masterpiece The Naked Kiss (Year of the Month)
It’s impossible to analyze a Sam Fuller movie. So they say, anyway: David Thompson believes…
Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on New Hollywood, Commercialism, and The Star Wars Holiday Special
When did New Hollywood die, and who killed it? Ask ten different film theorists and…
Year of the Month: Autumn Sonata: Bergman’s Last Song by Jacob Thomas Klemmer
Late in the first act of Autumn Sonata, Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman discuss…