Recent Viewing

I went to see the new Studio Ghibli release a couple of weeks ago. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010) is based on the Borrowers books by Mary Norton, mostly written in the ’50s. These stories of little people who live in the walls and under the floorboards of houses, “borrowing” unwanted scraps from the […]

Blasts from the past

October viewing notes

Criterion Blu-ray review:
Ermanno Olmi’s The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

Summer viewing: science fiction

Elem Klimov’s Come and See (1985): Criterion Blu-ray review

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