Author name: Christopher Long

It’s tempting to think of 1950s Japanese cinema as the bleakest of wastelands, a litany of unending misery from “Sansho […]

That Pierre Étaix’s comedies do not tickle my funny bone is of no relevance to you and hardly even to

It’s 1160 and a good man is hard to find. Rival Japanese clans have been dueling for power for most

It was 1984 and Americans were on course to re-elect a shitty, sadistic, semi-sentient president. In a fucking landslide. What

Tiffany Shlain’s documentary “Connected” (2011) is a bit of a trap. The free-associative narrative structure begs to be criticized for

Henri Verdoux (Charles Chaplin) is an odd little man, a former bank clerk who loses his job in the Depression

Cartoonist David Low first introduced the pot-bellied, walrus-mustached Colonel Blimp to British readers in the 1930s. In single-panel installments, the

“Living in a zoo can be very sad People stare at you and make you mad. Oh how I wonder

The blob is a metaphor, you see, a metaphor for… it’s just a blob. And it is the purest blob

“Ministry of Fear” (1944) had its share of detractors, among them Graham Greene who despised this adaptation of his wartime