Hanging on the Vitaphone

With Stephen Fry during the making of Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993).

Nanook of the North was an immediate commercial and critical success, and was the first feature-length documentary to achieve success.

Written by Alan Sharp and directed by Arthur Penn, the film received critical praise (Roger Ebert listed it as his 2nd favorite film of the year, behind Nashville), and a BAFTA and New York Film Critics Circle nominations for Gene Hackman, but failed to find an audience when it was first released. It has since been called "a seminal modern noir work from the 1970s" and one of Penn's best films.

Dr. Liz Marnik, PhD, explains how you can fight a proposed OMB rule that would destabilize the funding system for scientific research, enable political appointees to decide which science gets funded, and muzzle science communication.

Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2026) It's a high-contrast, black & white film right up my alley. Although it co-won Best Director at this year's Cannes Film Festival, it's a must-watch regardless of any awards, purely for the combination of Thomas Mann's life story and Sandra Hüller's Erika Mann. I heard the 'Challan Film Company' is bringing it to South Korea. (Yay!) It looks like I’ll just have to wait until this fall to watch it, though.

The Soul of Things (Dominic Angerame, 2010).

Performers: Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook, Rita Christiani

Memory is the selection of images, some elusive, others printed indelibly on the brain. Each image is like a thread, each thread woven together to make a tapestry of intricate texture.

Alain Delon in Le cercle rouge (1970)

A Poet (Simón Mesa Soto, 2025).

Станционный смотритель / The Station Master (1972) dir. Sergey Solovyov

La prima notte di quiete (1972)

"Doppelgangland" 03.16 (1999)

La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)

Claire's Knee (1970), dir. Éric Rohmer

Quei loro incontri (Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub, 2006)

Archival footage - How to Survive a Plague, 2012, dir. David France