A handful of links
I'm not quite committing yet to (a) posting regularly, or (b) returning to a regular Sunday links, but here are some pieces that I have appreciated over the past week or so: • The movies of my youth: Italo Calvino more
I'm not quite committing yet to (a) posting regularly, or (b) returning to a regular Sunday links, but here are some pieces that I have appreciated over the past week or so: • The movies of my youth: Italo Calvino more
We have been on holiday in France, staying in an ancient manor house on the outskirts of the village of Montredon-Labessonié. Tucked away in the countryside between Albi and Castres, Montredon-Labessonié has a church, a bar and a recently more
• Listen up: Nick Pinkerton for Artforum on Japan Speaks Out!: Early Japanese Talkies at New York's Museum of Modern Art, including (above) The Neighbor's Wife and Mine, 1931, directed by Heinosuke Gosho. • Orson Welles and more
I've had a wonderful birthday week in France, and now I'm back with all sorts of new challenges to face. Here's a selection of three things for today, before - inspired a bit by my birthday blog - I start more
Each day I highlight just three things. Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not. • The new new museum: Jerry Saltz for New York magazine riffs on the recent history of art museums and makes you long more
Each day I highlight just three things. Sometimes there are links between them, oftentimes there are not. • The A-Z of Carl Dreyer: terrific anthology from Matthew Thrift at BFI about the demanding work of the great Danish director, including more
Each day I try to highlight just three things. Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • The River - a new authenticity: a very fine essay by Ian Christie for Criterion on Jean Renoir's more
Each day I try to highlight three things (although on some days, like today, the post is a little late). Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • jam & cheese: this really is very cool - more
Each day I highlight three things (although on some days, like today, the post is a little late). Sometimes there are connections between the three things, oftentimes there are not. • The future of memory - disrupting the archives to more
Each day I highlight three things. Sometimes there are connections between them, oftentimes there not. • A new Whitney: Michael Kimmelman reviews Manhattan's latest museum, with great use of embedded video and graphics (above) in a spectacular online essay from The more