Cinemasparagus

Footprints 1946. A film that in the first half hour has the feel of a series ("the Inspecteur Cassin movies" if you will), then...

Fingerprints (All images are iPhone photos taken of frames of the film playing off The Criterion Channel.) 1945. No passwords to esca...

Newsprints (All images are iPhone photos taken of frames of the film playing off the Warner Blu-ray of the film.) The title of Fritz La...

Every month I highlight some of the best Blu-ray and DVD supplements (along with Criterion Channel features upon its return in April 2019)....

"An eye closes // At the back pushed up against the wall / the thought not taking leave // Of ideas vanishes steadily // One could die...

Every month I highlight some of the best Blu-ray and DVD supplements (along with Criterion Channel features upon its return in April 2019)....

Every month I highlight some of the best Blu-ray and DVD supplements (along with Criterion Channel features upon its return in April 2019)....

"The child dances, lightly, in a leotard too big for him; lighter than the balls on which he's balancing. And when he passes round...

"He hunted the moon, he left the night." -Pierre Reverdy, "Chacun sa part" [To Each His Share], from Poèmes en prose ...

3 Bad Men [John Ford, 1926] 4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle [4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle] [Éric Rohmer, 1987] 8-jikan no ...

Every month I highlight some of the best Blu-ray and DVD supplements (along with Criterion Channel features upon its return in Spring 2019)...

Figured I'd produce my list of the top 3 films of 2018. Not 10, 6, 24? No ma'am, not this year. Just haven't seen as many 2018 ...

"I was / offered refreshments, which I accepted. / I ate a sandwich of pure meat; an / enormous sandwich of human flesh, / I noticed, ...

Stillborn in 70 "Every m(e|ovie)ment(o) thicc with that "kind-of..." post-Cuarónian mise-en-scène" "Cuarón...

"Introduce a nice tender heart into the bedroom. / Allow to sit, and lie back sur canapé .* / Pour one drop of port / And then take yo...

"I'm the ticketpuncher at les Lilas. / For Invalides change at Opéra. / I live in the heart of the planet. / I've got / A conf...

"— My soul is a tomb in which, / Since eternity, I, bad cenobite, move and dwell; / Nothing embellishes the walls of this odious clois...

Every month I'll be highlighting some of the best Blu-ray and DVD supplements (along with Criterion Channel features upon its return in...

"The night spawned thousandfold monsters, / Yet fresh and cheerful was my mood: / In my veins such fire! / In my heart such ardor!...