Zoom in, zoom out. Of course nothing like this could be accomplished in the era in which this was painted. But perhaps with our painterly ...

    One of my favorite images of Lautrec. Labelled as a "trick photo", I actually think he was magical enough to split himself in ...

I watched the movie long before I knew very much about the man. But as with that other painter-of-the-people, Van Gogh, Lautrec's artwor...

OK  then, this is NOT going to be an essay. This is NOT going to be a biography (there are plenty of those). This won't be a rehash of t...

Cat palate cleanser.  Spit out those dirty memories! And this one, even better!

  Why can’t anyone talk anymore? Am I being such a grammatical fussbudget? Not if I hear the language twisted into a corkscrew every day. Fi...

Oh yes! Escapism at its finest. Given my medical status (THREE appointments with specialists in the next few months, not to mention multiple...

This little clip from YouTube claims to be a story of fraud, betrayal and abuse of power. And ironically, it turned out that way after all. ...

Though this started off paranthetical, I want to devote a whole post to yet another movie I re-watched for the first time in at least 30 ye...

Having come out the other side of The Roosevelts and Taxi  Driver, I'm finding most of my movie nostalgia trips are disappointing. I f...

A little Italian let’s praise today: The Topo Gigio of pictures, let’s say. When Taxi Driver comes on TV, I always drop what I’m doing, you ...