I am here to inform these modern times of the grammatical era’s end and the beginning of flamboyance especially in cinema. -Joseph Balsamo (Daniel Pommereulle) Fin de conte Fin de cinema -Closing title card It feels more than a little bit facile to write about Week End, which like all of Jean-Luc Godard’s films is […]

Tobacco Road is a bizarre, schizophrenic little bit of a movie. Coming at a place in John Ford’s canon right after The Grapes of Wrath and The Long Voyage Home, and right before How Green Was My Valley and his war-related hiatus from studio filmmaking, Tobacco Road would seem to fit comfortably in that line […]

My intent had been to start out this project with the highest-ranked film on the TSPDT list that I’ve never seen, but #64, Erich von Stroheim’s epic Greed, is not presently available on DVD, and I have no access to a videocassette player. So I’ve had to go for a back-up: the second-highest-ranked film that […]