DAMES: When Showing and Telling Clash
When The Jazz Singer introduced sound to Hollywood in 1927, it opened up the possibility…
“Now here comes the big, fat close-up”: Jake Gittes on A Star Is Born (Year of the Month)
When Norman Maine, a troubled, alcoholic film star whose long career is beginning to flounder,…
YEAR OF THE MONTH: Persia on On the Town
On the Town is a light confection of a musical movie, without much plot or…
A Little Junior High Music–A Women’s+ Canon Article
One of the most valuable things I own to me is a tape that I…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Love Me Tonight
Movies are miraculous. By the nature of their technology, they invent spectacular phenomena that otherwise…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on The Pirate
“Don’t call me ‘pure soul,’ it irritates me! Underneath this prim exterior there are depths…
Year of the Month: Persia on Kismet
Well, Kismet sure is pretty. An Orientalist fantasy that never quite commits to its Orientalism,…
Dissolve On (12/17/2017-12/23/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Dissolve On (7/9/2017-7/15/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
In Defense of “Stagey”
I saw Sweeney Todd in the theatre. The movie; I’ve never been so fortunate as…