When films are structured like video games
Sometimes, a movie is just a movie. But when filmmakers take inspiration from another medium, the effect can be exhilarating.
Genial Yeti
Genial Yeti runs the film desk (and does an abominable job). Here for reviews and essays about the joy of moving pictures. Whether it's arthouse or genre-trash, screens big and small, Yeti stands ready with popcorn in one paw and a snow-cone in the other.
Number crunching the Criterion Closet Picks
A prestigious cupboard of physical media. A cavalcade of filmmakers and actors. What patterns can we find between them?
Adventures in post-war Europe: The Third Man & Roman Holiday
Two directors take the same raw material, a city and its people pulling themselves back together, and hand the audience two completely different truths.
Double bill of dread: Wages of Fear & Diabolique
Two thrillers directed by Clouzot, two opposite theories of dread: in one the threat is a bad road, in the other it's the person across the breakfast table.