• All the world's a dream
• Guy Sherwin
• The Archbishop the criminal and the repair of destinies
• Rohmer's passing
• The White Ribbon
• Army of Crime
• On the Waterfront's Unanswered Question
• Solaris: Soviet Cars
• The Banishment
• A Cathedral Tale
• Ford & Kipling
• No Country For Old Men
• Perfect Storm

Essays, Ideas

The navigation bar at the side will take you to short essays covering an eclectic section of film topics.

• Two thoughts about Inception : dreams and good scenes

• In praise of British film-maker Guy Sherwin's optical sound films

• The idea of confession in Dostoevsky, Bresson, Graham Greene, Simenon [this links to the idea sketched in Detectives]

• Ten short thoughts in praise of Eric Rohmer

• The White Ribbon has a specific intent to shock in the way that Surrealism does

• How Robert Guédiguian's L'Armée de crime wastes its opportunities, like a tragic overture that eschews the minor key

• On the Waterfront's Unanswered Question - Bernstein's music for On the Waterfront (1954) and a suggested link to Charles Ives

• Solaris: Soviet Cars - the glories of Soviet science fiction

• The Banishment - in praise of Zvyagintsev's film of 2006

• A Cathedral Tale - in praise of Powell & Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale (1944)

• Ford & Kipling - John Ford a 'divided film-maker'

• No Country for Old Men - in praise of the Coen Brothers film, and in even greater praise of the Cormac McCarthy novel

• Perfect Storm - in praise of John Ford and against the cinema of hyperbole.