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
• Alice Guy's Paris films - film by film, location by location: a truly wonderful and wonderfully visual post from The Cine-Tourist about the scenes in silent films by the pioneering filmmaker. • The eeriness more
Some reading and viewing for a post-Turkey moment or two... Happy Christmas! • Blue Christmas, by Michael Koresky and Casey Moore, from The Criterion Collection: Blue Christmas - An Original Video Essay from Criterion Collection on Vimeo. • more
So even if you've already seen this, it is worth another watch - it's a brilliant marketing coup for Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum which re-opens this week after a decade of closure. A detail of the painting which it recreates - Rembrandt's more
My 'Links for the weekend' is our blog's most popular offering. But given the length of this week's post as it first appeared, it is clear that the idea is in danger of getting out of hand. So I am more