Film Essays

The Prestige of Terror: Why The Silence of the Lambs Is Unmistakably Horror

There remains a strange reluctance, even now, to call The Silence of the Lambs a horror film. Jonathan Demme’s 1991 […]

Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963) begins with an argument about women’s shoes—style versus durability, profit versus quality—and somehow makes

Terry Zwigoff’s Ghost World (2001) is often described as a coming-of-age comedy, but the label feels almost willfully insufficient. What

In memory, certain films fuse permanently with people. They become shorthand for relationships, eras, or emotional states. For me, Risky

Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise is one of those rare films that feels small on the surface—two strangers talking, walking, riding