A film that doesn't work, but is still fascinating.

This episode is also available as blog entry at

https://tashpix.wordpress.com/2022/05/08/the-day-of-the-locust/

A film that makes you ask "What were they thinking?"

A good example of the pleasures possible with low-budget, no-name films

A discussion of the differences between two related media.

This episode is also available as a blog entry:

https://tashpix.wordpress.com/some-thoughts/photography-vs-cinematography/

Why we have no chance against insects.

Franco Zeffirelli being Zeffirelli at the expense of St. Francis of Assisi.

A look at a Kubrick film that many love and others love to hate.

Joseph Losey's puzzling exercise in political and psychological obscurity

Billy Wilder's "classic" comedy/drama about a low-level clerk using the system to his own ends.

This episode is also available as a blog post at https://tashpix.wordpress.com/2022/04/24/the-apartment/

Identity is everything in Joseph Losey's occupied France