Following my coverage of Jeanne Dielman , Beau Travail , and Close-Up , Sunrise is the first film in my Sight & Sound podcast minise...

Visit the full directory for the introduction & line-up of monthly capsules running from August 2021 to February 2022

Visit the full directory for the introduction & line-up of monthly capsules running from August 2021 to February 2022

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a film inside of a film inside of a film. It encloses its various narratives, nesting them inside other ...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick.  The Passion of Joan of Arc (192...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick.  The Gold Rush (1925/USA/dir. ...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick. Pandora's Box (1929/Germany/...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick. La Roue (1923/France/dir. Abel G...

The Favorites  is a series briefly exploring films I love, to find out what makes them - and me - tick. Faust (1926/Germany/dir. F.W. Mu...

My entry in the Comedy Countdown, a video essay on Modern Times mixing and matching three iconic texts on the famous film, from Otis ...

In the famed Kuleshov experiment, conducted in the Soviet Union immediately after the Russian Revolution, it was demonstrated that audie...

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...

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

A new month, a new theme for "Fixing a Hole" . The year ends with the avant-garde, and today I've tapped Maurizio Roca, wh...

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

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

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...

The second chapter of "32 Days of Movies" , an audiovisual tour through 366 films. View "Chapter 2: Jazz Age Visions...

The first chapter of "32 Days of Movies" , an audiovisual tour through 366 films. (2015 update - includes Vimeo embed afte...

Allan Fish has today concluded his ambitious countdown of the one hundred best films from the early years of cinema. You can catch up wit...