By Jonathan Monovich. I find that the past lives in the present. Like Faulkner said, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’…. Whenever there have been attempts to return to zero, they’ve amounted to nothing. —Kent Jones In the deeply personal, My Voyage to Italy (1999), Martin Scorese […]
Life at the Movies – Every Movie is a Miracle: A Colloquy Between Leonard Maltin and Nat Segaloff
A Book Review by Jonathan Monovich. Consider Every Movie is a Miracle a heartfelt thank you to movies, the lives they shape, and the friendships they help form.” Nat Segaloff has had an eclectic life as an author, studio publicist, critic, teacher, broadcaster, and documentary writer/producer, meriting stories of his […]
Analyzing “on a Forensic Level”: Tim Lucas on the 30th Anniversary of Throat Sprockets
By Jonathan Monovich. When I do commentaries now, I find myself examining films on a more forensic level, responding to individual scenes and shots and taking them apart. My rule with commentaries is that I need to learn something, and I need to know more coming out than I did […]
Where Criticism’s Headed: An Interview with Jonathan Rosenbaum
By Jonathan Monovich. Where we’re headed is a nightmare…. our language is so corrupted on so many different levels that we basically can’t even have film criticism now…. The language that we use is largely under the control of the industry.” —Jonathan Rosenbaum Born into a family of movie theater […]
Joker Folie á Deux and the Shared Madness of Modern Film Critics
By Gary D. Rhodes. It is so very easy to hobgoblinize a film, even if one needs a thesaurus to ferret out an abundance of negative adjectives. And yet, I am struck by the sheer number of blatant errors and falsehoods about FáD that mainstream critics have relied upon.” Todd […]
The Bombardment (2021): a Prologue, a Post-mortem, and an Antenarrative
By David Ryan. The film strikes deeply when focusing on the losses we share when innocent people, families, and children perish through the actions of tyrants and the mistakes of gallant, smart but altogether remarkably ordinary people.” A Prologue A tragic film dealing with intimate themes about the effects of […]