Sara Ryan

I just saw the excellent Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In. I like this quote from John Ajvide Lindqvist. He’s the author of the novel on which the film was based, and also the screenwriter.
I think the most important thing with horror, where a lot of horror fails, or [the] horror doesn’t work, [...]

Thanks to Videorama’s “rent three, get one free” policy, we picked up, on a whim, The Order of Myths.

The Order of Myths, in Mobile, Alabama, is the oldest of the mystic societies that build Carnival floats and give masquerade balls during Mardi Gras.
But the title also evokes the myths that the city tells about itself.
Here’s [...]

Perhaps it’s just immediate post-viewing hyperbole, but I think Burn After Reading is my favorite Cohen brothers movie so far.
The trailer emphasizes schtick, and there’s certainly schtick in abundance, but if that’s all you see when you watch this movie, you’re missing a lot. It’s about how we construct our realities based upon our understanding [...]

I’m leaving town again (but this is the last time — for at least a couple of months!) to see the Seattle contingent. Yay!
Here are two things that are awesome:
Catholic Church Fashion Show from Federico Fellini’s Roma. I won’t try to describe it. Just watch it.
Featurette: The Eyes of Laura Mars — Helmut Newton and [...]

I just watched No Maps for these Territories: a documentary about William Gibson. I was expecting to like it — I’m a big fan of Gibson, especially of Pattern Recognition — and I did. But the visuals, I thought, were trying too hard to add an additional layer of meaning to what Gibson was saying, [...]