THE VOICES (Part I)
Recently, I assigned a reading from Benjamin Dreyer's delightful examination of English language usage, Dreyer's English, to my AP...
CHRISTMAS MOVIES Part I
More than forty years ago, when I returned from a decade in the Midwest to start teaching in New Jersey, I provided my students a service...
THE MAESTRO OF MOON RIVER
As a lover of music (look how many posts in this blog deal with music!), I like to call attention to luminaries younger music aficionados...
VERTIGO
In 1958, nearing the end of a decade of directing some of his most memorable and deeply profound films, Alfred Hitchcock completed...
THOMAS NEWMAN
Academy Award season is upon us, and I thought I'd pay tribute to someone who has been criminally overlooked for a quarter of a century! ...
GILT-EDGED BONDS
There are many different methods for evaluating the James Bond franchise. Today it is likely that most people who have seen as many as...
TOP TEN FILMS 2012 POLL
Back in October, I concluded a series of entries on the iconic Sight & Sound Top Ten Films poll, undertaken every decade by the esteemed...
NICK ADAMS-That's How It Is When You're Nineteen!
My students got a big kick out of the just slightly overripe voiceover to this trailer for the 1962 film Hemingway's Adventures of a...
THE AWFUL TRUTH
One of cinema's top ten sight gags-from Leo McCarey's sublime classic comedy of remarriage, The Awful Truth, starring Cary Grant and...
TOP TEN Finale (at least until some time in 2012)
To conclude my thoughts on Sight & Sound's Top Ten lists that appear each decade (in the year ending in 2), let me clarify a few points. ...