by Ryland WalkerKnight —Bring yourself, roll Curb Your Enthusiasm , 7th Season [Larry David, 2009] Hard to beat "The Table Read," no doubt, among so many episodes this season, but, once again, LD proves how smart he is about people's petty shit and everybody's desire for a fairytale—despite knowing all too well that most things in life, as it turns out, aren't just...
by Ryland WalkerKnight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] The third night showcased a pair of ghost films, Night and Fog and Muriel , that dovetails one phantasmagoria...