I watched Abbas Kiarostami's brilliant 1990 film Close-Up the other night. I saw this probably 20 years ago and wasn't in a place to get it I guess. I thought.
I recently returned to Nabokov for the first time in a decade, reading Ada or Ardor, which is a wonderful and underrated book. In many ways, it is a companion.
Tonight's film club is the 1931 short Hot News Margie, starring Marjorie Beebe, who was a minor comedic star in the late 20s through the mid 30s. This is a.
I honestly know nothing about chess, but I thought this little 1937 news clip about a young British girl totally dominant at chess was a starting point for a conversation.
Happy Bastille Day you cheese-eating surrender monkeys. Enjoy this film from 1938 about the French military. I think we can all agree that this impressive display of force would be.
Today's film is The Bottle and the Throttle, an anti-drunk driving film from 1965. It combines the ridiculous production values of your typical PSA film from the period with a.
Tonight's film is 1893's "Blacksmith Scene," which I believe is the first film recording of work in history. Of course it is staged work, but still. It's an interesting minute.
One of the benefits of the folk revival of the 60s was a lot of people went out and shot documentaries of the aging musicians of the South, at times.
