The Helpless Clock: Time-Sense and Time-Feeling in Movie Viewing

By George Toles. “What time is this? What time is this?”…The way “this” made the moment a real thing the woman had not been allowed to know or enter.” —Harriet Clark, The Hill “and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” —Feste in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What […]

“Much Better than Reality”: Julian Schnabel on In the Hand of Dante

By Jonathan Monovich. Some people only want to see what they expect to see, but I’m not that kind of person. Josef Von Sternberg was once told his movie didn’t seem very realistic, and he responded, ‘Of course not, it’s much better than reality.’” –Julian Schnabel In the truest sense […]