Year of the Month: Miller on Decline and Fall
“What did we learn, Palmer?” “I don’t know sir.” “I don’t fucking know either. I…
Year of the Month: Son of Griff on Show People
It’s common knowledge that the character of Susan Alexander, Charles Foster Kane’s tone-deaf paramour in…
Year Of The Month – Steamboat Bill Jr.
The last twenty minutes of Steamboat Bill Jr. are some of the greatest moments of…
Year of the Month: Joseph Finn on All Quiet On The Western Front
All Quiet On The Western Front (in the original German: Westen nichts Neues, “Nothing…
Disney Byways: “Steamboat Willie”
As we’ve already discussed, “Steamboat Willie” was not the first Mickey Mouse cartoon but the…
THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA (Year of the Month)
Was there a more consistent source of humor for Soviet artists in the 1920s than the…
Year of the Month: The House at Pooh Corner
There’s a bit of a running theme in children’s lit: the first book will always…
The Solute Record Club/Year of the Month: Arcana by Edgard Varèse
Naming a work as the first of any genre is speculative, irresponsible, and fun. For…
Year of the Month: Miller on The Book of Three
“Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we can do.…
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…