First suggested by a patron following my episode on The Zone of Interest last year, Luchino Visconti's 1969 melodrama The Damned - set...

I hoped and suspected that The Zone of Interest would be the next film patrons picked for me to cover following its prominence at the Acade...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick. Schindler's List (1993/USA/d...

When Wanda Jakubowska entered the gates of the women's camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau as a political prisoner of the Nazis, she seized u...

This is an entry in  "The Big Ones,"  a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image.  There are s...

The sixth chapter in "32 Days of Movies" , an audiovisual tour through 366 films. (2015 update: included Vimeo embed afte...

Inglourious Basterds ' hook is clever, canny, and seemingly irresistible. A squadron of Jewish-American soldiers, led by a gentile b...

As I may have mentioned recently, I've been tracking down classics I haven't seen (and re-watching old favorites) in anticipation o...

Zelig is a marvellous non sequitur, much like its hero. Well, that's not true exactly - the film has a message of sorts ("be your...

As I indicated in my previous "quick one" I've seen few films in theaters over the past few months. What's more, the films...

[As December, and with it 2008, comes to a close, let me take a moment to look back on several recently viewed (but undiscussed) movies. Ea...

(Follow the links to see the shorts themselves.) A few years ago, Disney finally released wartime propaganda cartoons that had been tied ...