Posts by Doug Cummings

Thanks for your reply, Josh, you've been quite eloquent. I didn't mean to take your comments too literally; I just meant to say that I feel the package as a whole is geared towards a certain approach to the film that is more fan-based...

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh Steinberg Quite frankly, this may be the greatest special edition ever produced. I don't mean to say that as a fanboy (which I probably am anyway), but just objectively looking at all of the...

> Doug, I can't say that I was too impressed with Donald > Kirihara's book on Kenji Mizoguchi (Patterns of Time: > Mizoguchi and the 1930s); I suspect that the book was > springboarded from his graduate thesis because he seemed >...

Just a quick heads up to anyone in the L.A. area that the LA County Museum of Art is offering rare screenings of "Ugetsu Monogatari" and "The Life of Oharu" on August 23 and 24. ...

There's also the Image disc of Dovzhenko's "Earth," which I watched last weekend, and it comes bundled with a reconstruction of Eisenstein's lost film "Bezhin Meadow." I've only seen the former, but found it very moving and watchable...

Naw... it just seems like online cineastes tend to flock together unawares. Thanks Don! I'm happy to be here. I guess I've got 22 titles left to reach 100. Can I be added to the list too?

Thanks! Now I've got to see what these lists are all about...

For the longest time, Parker Tyler's book, Underground Film, was a favorite book on the subject but it was recently supplemented by Lovers of Cinema: The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945 edited by Jan-Christopher...

Rich is absolutely correct and his list of films illustrates a more accurate picture of the integration of religion and art. It's inconsequential whether these films are "more popular" or reach "the average moviegoer" at all. The...