OK, so it's Saturday. Things are complicated around here these days. This will be a quickie.

Brief (18 minutes) look at the story of the Cinema Guild in Berkeley in the 1950s. Fun for fans of Pauline Kael. Doesn't include anything new, but us Kael fans don't care.

Battle of the Sexes tells the story of an event that resonated at the time it occurred, but is perhaps not well-known today. Former tennis great and hustler Bobby Riggs challenged top women tennis ...

Tom Robinson was a big deal in the punk era with The Tom Robinson Band. His next group was called Sector 27. They released an album in late 1980, and it was a good one, although it didn't get much ...

My ankle is broken in 3 places. Updates as they arrive.

This is the fourteenth film I have watched in "My Letterboxd Season Challenge 2024-25", a "33-week-long community challenge" where "you must watch one previously unseen film that fits the criteria of ...

Quentin Tarantino thinks Players is unjustly maligned. It's pretty hard to find anyone else with something nice to say about the film, so let's give Quentin his say: "As a Hollywood tennis sports ...

An experiment. I have a list of films made in Spain ... more specifically, Andalusia, more specifically still, in Andalusian Spanish. Which I continue to work on ... as I've noted in the past, the ...

A couple of days ago, my wife was on a Zoom call with some of her knitting friends. I was doing what I usually do these days, lying on the bed, listening to SiriusXM, and I only caught bits and pieces ...

The other day, I was driving in Berkeley, and at a stop sign, the car in front of me had a Trump/Vance bumper sticker. I felt like Buggin Out in this scene from Do the Right Thing: If Trump wins ...

Sometimes it feels like every time Jessie Buckley makes a movie, people say it's a star-making performance. Beast was one of her first features, and she is terrific as always. But that was seven years ...

I re-watched The Conformist for the first time in 50 or so years. I've often listed it as my favorite Bertolucci film (and I like a lot of them), even though my memories of it were pretty vague ...