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NOTABLE ONLINE RANTS AND RAVES

The following pages were all originally posted in movie message boards in the course of various sundry discussions on films. I have found them to be worth saving and posting here, if only as a testament to how much time I have expended thinking and writing about movies when I could have been doing something more productive, such as making movies. But it's all a means to an end, I suppose...

Trying to Catch a Hero by the Tail (February 2003 to August 2004)

Horrifying spirtuality vs. the spirituality of horror: two takes on Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (February 2004)

On Kurosawa's High and Low (May 26, 2003)

Cinema, Reality and History in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Flowers of Shanghai (May 25, 2003)

On Kubrick's "humanity" in Barry Lyndon (March 24, 2003)

On the Climactic Duel in Barry Lyndon (March 21, 2003)

In Defense of Barry Lyndon (March 21, 2003)

On the Final Scene in Barry Lyndon (March 23, 2003)

What Kurosawa and Godard Might Have in Common (March 21, 2003)

Akira Kurosawa: Humanist or Formalist?

Let's Get Neo-Real (November 19, 2002)

The Wind Will Carry Us and "Traditional Culture" (July 24, 2002)

On the Ending of Kiarostami's TASTE OF CHERRY (July 24, 2002)

In Defense of Rossellini's RISE OF LOUIS XIV (July 23, 2002)

Five Reasons Why I Love Abbas Kiarostami (May 22, 2002)

Rule Breakers: Filmmakers who Can't Be Appreciated with Conventional Criteria (May 13, 2002)

Why Hou Hsiao Hsien is a Rule Breaking director (May 13, 2002)

On Propaganda (May 2, 2002)

The American Directors Project