The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick. Ivan the Terrible, Pt. II (194...

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

Years ago, I saw a few brief scenes from October which engendered in me a passionate desire to see the whole movie. One moment stood out e...

Over the course of two films, released fourteen years apart due to Soviet censorship, legendary director Sergei Eisenstein chronicles the i...

The title of this post does not refer to my (unintentional) absence from this blog - though 5 days is by far the longest sabbatical I've...