Lesley Stern: Outlaw of Genre

She charges space, she rakes and ruffles her cropped and bleached hair, her dark eyes narrow as her thought uncoils with the lasso of smoke from her cigarette, and she moves, lean and feline-slinky in her riot ...

World Poll 2020 – Part 2

ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Nicolás Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Jeremy Chamberlin Allison Chhorn Ian Christie Emily Collins Jordan Cronk Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Henri de Corin...

The Manly Veil

The end of The Shining will always be enigmatic. In the movie’s final scene we see a photograph taken at the Overlook Hotel on July 4, 1921. It shows Jack Torrance front and center as the Gatsby-like maestro of...

World Poll 2019 — Part 7

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa Christine Sathiah Adrian Schober Howard Schumann Christopher Sikich Christopher Small Rachel Small Jordan M. Smith Valerie Soe Mark Spra...

Woody Allen: Television as Crisis

“Renata Adler said television was an appliance rather than an artform.” Woody Allen in Meetin’ WA, Jean-Luc Godard, 1986 It was in high-school that a precocious Woody Allen (Allan Stewart Konigsberg) started ...

Fei Mu

b. 10 October, 1906, Shanghai d. 31 January, 1951, Hong Kong Fei Mu was a director whose life coincided with huge upheavals in the history of China. A man of deep intellect and a love of his country, he was...