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Merry Christmas from Monika and Yoko ("32 Days of Movies")
When I wrapped "32 Days of Movies" in November, I knew that the project was not quite finished. Now it is.I have added four entirely new film clips to the series, bringing the grand total up to 370....
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Seven Samurai
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. There are spoilers.The ethos of Seven Samurai – the values it stands for, or at least...
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The Seventh Seal
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. There are spoilers.In the Valhalla of cinematic images, alongside Orson Welles grinning...
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Taxi Driver
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. There are spoilers.The following was written in the fall of 1999, when I was 15 years...
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The Third Man
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. There are spoilers."If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my...
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Tokyo Story
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. There are spoilers.Shukishi and Tomi do not need money from their children. They don't...
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Ugetsu
This is an entry in "The Big Ones," a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. There are spoilers.In discussing Rear Window, I wrote of Hitchock’s peculiar and...
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Last Call
Tonight or tomorrow, my final piece for "The Big Ones" goes up, on Vertigo, one of my two or three favorite movies. It will also be my last regular post for some time. On New Year's Eve, I will put up...
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100 of My Favorite Movies
These are not necessarily the movies I consider "greatest;" they're closer to being personal favorites I would be most compelled to watch at a given moment. I've ordered them roughly by preference,...
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Vertigo
This concludes "The Big Ones," a series covering 32 classic films for the first time on The Dancing Image. There are spoilers.I was very lucky with Vertigo.Psycho had been spoiled for me when Iwas far...
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Explore The Dancing Image - TOP POSTS
This is a collection of my strongest work. It will top the blog as I take a break from the site. Welcome (or welcome back) to The Dancing Image. There are several ways to explore the site, beginning...
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Dishonorary Awards: Why Not to Watch the Oscars This Year
By refusing to broadcast the Honorary Awards for the third year running, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has blown a raspberry at the luminaries of film history. Perhaps we should...
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Lost and Found - and Back in Action
In which The Dancing Image is removed, restored, and - as of today - reactivatedI thought it was all over.Last week, I passed my blog on to a co-worker, thinking he would enjoy some of the features....
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What are 100 (of Your) Favorite Movies?
An Open Question for Bloggers, Lurkers, and StumblersCall it a meme if you like, though I think the term's gone out of fashion. Anyway, I'm not setting any rules or regulations, and I'm not tagging...
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Ben-Hur
Around 1991, when I kicked off my video collection in earnest (the few kids' films I owned up to that point didn't really count towards a self-conscious canon), Ben-Hur was one of the first VHS tapes I...
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The Long Goodbye
This review contains spoilers about the book and the film.One of the most unique neo-noirs of the seventies, The Long Goodbye displays both the advantages and pitfalls of free-association adaptation....
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This is Not a Film & Venom and Eternity
A few months ago, I saw This is Not a Film for the first time. I had just arrived in Los Angeles and it seemed somehow appropriate to view Jafar Panahi's documentary about his own house arrest (and his...
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Fragments of Cinephilia, Pt. II
Short thoughts on: The deaths of Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni • The Wild One • The Virgin Spring • The Departed and Infernal Affairs • Pan's Labyrinth and The Spirit of the Beehive • John...
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Spade & Marlowe, Private Eyes (The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep, on page...
Who is Sam Spade? Who is Philip Marlowe?Well, for many film buffs, Bogie will always be Bogie. Granted, there's plenty of wiggle room within the Humphrey Bogart persona: the paranoia of Fred C. Dobbs,...
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The muddled message of The Dark Knight Rises
This piece, not a review proper but an examination of the film's themes, contains spoilers and is designed for those who have already seen the movie.Four years ago, when this blog was in its infancy, I...
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