According to legend, a mermaid once surfaced in the Vistula river and was captured by a traveling merchant. When she sang out in distress, a group of ...
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 c...
“This magazine is not meant to preach to the converted – it’s for everyone,” editor Mary Peacock grandly announced to the L.A. Times in a 1971 article...
It begins with a landscape. The cinematic depictions of the Sonoran desert in El Mar La Mar (2017) and A Shape of Things to Come (2020), both co-direc...
WHOEVER leads a solitary life and yet now and then wants to attach himself somewhere….. he will not be able to manage for long without a window lookin...
The first gusher in Texas erupted over Spindletop, Beaumont in 1901 and took prospectors and engineers two full days to cap. By day ten, Spindletop pr...
The first thing you see in Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1966 film, Le Samouraï, is an apartment. It’s a bare studio, undecorated and almost wholly bereft of...
In the middle of an empty parking lot, a lonely snack stall promises roadside indulgence. Its red and white marquee speaks of sunnier days, seaside va...
Recently I saw what will most likely be my favourite film of the past year and foreseeable future, especially in light of the pandemic: The Painted Bi...
