“Can’t overstate how much everyone must go see La grande bellezza,” Ferdinand Addis tweeted in September of 2013. “I want to spend the rest of my life staring at Toni Servillo’s forehead.” At that time, he was most widely known — to the extent that he was known to the public at all — as […]
Harold Brodkey put out his first novel The Runaway Soul at the age of 61. He did so after enjoying more than thirty years of literary notoriety, if “enjoying” be the word. Since the late nineteen-fifties, he’d been publishing only short stories and New Yorker pieces, and somewhere along the line, as the repeatedly promised […]
Having slouched around screenings of midcentury Godard, Truffaut, and Antonioni, all of whom have enjoyed a recent surge of popularity at Los Angeles revival houses, I can’t stifle my standard lament about why They Don’t Make Movies Like These Anymore. But a more accurate lament would ask why They Never Really Made Movies That […]