"Sparks" is bound for SXSW
My first feature film will premiere in Austin next month.
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The ski movie (part II)
mostly concerning "13 Days in France," Claude Lelouch's Grenoble epic.
The Oscar nominations
a mammoth billboard couldn't save Glinda, and other thoughts on this morning's announcement.
The ski movie
or rather skiing—and my dad’s early career—as they relate to films commissioned for the Olympics.
The multiplane camera
a tale of deception.
The best advice in "Nouvelle Vague"
parsing the kernels of ideology and aversion in Richard Linklater’s Godard homage.
Laments over the Netflix-Warner merger presume a world that might not exist
Baumbach’s "Jay Kelly" lands in a headline-grabbing “content” landscape.
November candidates for theft
among them films by Tarkovsky, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lynne Ramsay and Philippe de Broca.
Working from home
a forum stocked with possibilities.
iso: my own Western
in thrall to uneasy rule of law and reputations with precedent.