I should point out (in reference to the picture for this post) that there is not typically a lot of nudity/sex (there is some, just not a lot) in Rohmer films.  So, while that image might not sum up *everything* there is to know about a Rohmer film, what can I say…I kind of like that picture for some…

Another one bites the dust. One day after Bergman’s death, elite European director, Michelangelo Antonioni, has died as well. I’m not a superstitious man, but it seems beyond a coincidence that after my European Film Fun Facts blog post this weekend, two of the directors mercilessly mocked therein have now died (though again, my Italian…

Bergman is a director that seems to be rather out of favor these days. Pretentious, old fashioned, one note, everyone from Conan O’Brian to Woody Allen (though a huge Bergman fan himself) has taken the occasional potshot at Bergman’s “stylized” performances and fixation on crises of faith. Though none of this is entirely untrue, it…

There is a scene in Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror where a young child looks through a book of art. The camera is close, showing only the pages of the book and the child’s hand as he flips from picture to picture. Occasionally he will stop and linger on a favorite drawing. It is obvious that…