Fearful Symmetries

The email arrived in the morning, about 7 hours before I was to see The Odyssey on glorious 70mm IMAX. Unfortunately I have some bad news. ...

Werner Herzog on 60 Minutes.

First news that Bob Uecker had died appeared and then it wasn't long before word came down that David Lynch had joined him. So many grea...

We have a new trailer for Robert Eggers' Nosferatu . It will be a good Christmas.

I went to see Run Lola Run , a.k.a. - Lola rennt , on the big screen. I don't think I'd seen it since c.1999 when it originally came...

The Jacques Ledoux Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at my alma mater has passed away. I never had a class with him but did use the classic...

Piper enjoyed a little bit of Von morgens bis mitternachts with me last week. Unsurprisingly, it was the scene where the young man goes to ...

(early-August 2023) (Watch this entry's prelude .) Having constructed a prima facie case in my mind that the Masons' influence perm...

(mid-June 2023) (Watch the prelude .) Leaving Trego after a couple hikes, I headed south to Spooner. I had been there many times but probab...

    (Continue to "She wore a kraanbere beret" .)

(Don't forget to read entry #92 .)

While I was in Indianapolis for Gencon , I availed myself of the chance to see Oppenheimer on an IMAX screen and on film at the Indiana Sta...

I now have tickets to see Oppenheimer at an IMAX on 70mm film. I'm really looking forward to this. No wonder I've been listening to ...

Thanks to the fine folks at UW Cinematheque , I got to see Twilight , the 1990 film by Hungarian director György Fehér, last week. Fehér was...

    It came out today that experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger passed away earlier this month. He was 96. I finally got around to watching...

(Don't forget to watch the prelude .) (mid-February 2023) A couple entries or so ago I relayed how I helped a friend of mine brew a red...