Ethan Hunt becomes the greatest hero in 100 years of film history in his choice to save the world by destroying the internet.

A second viewing crystallizes that the first hour of this is quite bad. I don’t know what happened, but it feels like the product of some sort of haphazard reworking. The interrogation room fight with Ethan and Grace feels like it was directed by a totally different (much worse) filmmaker, the editing is weird and disorienting, even…

1992 Workprint.

The auteur theory has become accepted to the point of being almost axiomatic within the critical community and the larger film industry, but I’ve found that the most purely auteurist works also stand as warnings against the idea that any film can function solely based on one person’s vision.

THE THIEF AND THE COBBLER is such a warning.

As a technical experiment and an act of unbridled artistic hubris from one of the great animators of all time,…

I just got to see STAR WARS projected from an immaculate 70mm print. The original STAR WARS, pre-special edition (“A New Hope” was on the crawl, but otherwise unaltered). It’s an impossible dream come true, and I’m so extremely grateful for this opportunity. It was a 70mm print struck for the UK in ‘81 that was never screened because it tore the first time it was projected. There’s about two seconds of major damage right as the Death Star explodes,…