Charlie Bertsch / 29 Jul 2026
The Limitations of Punk
Rude Boy, Directed by Jack Hazan and David Mingay
Michelangelo Antonioni
Charlie Bertsch / 17 Nov 2022
Neither the US nor Russia
Sergio Leone’s Fistful of Dollars
Because Sergio Leone didn’t make films set in Europe or ones that obviously dealt with the continent’s problems, he has been excluded from the pantheon of its greatest postwar auteurs: Cocteau, Bergman, Fellini, Godard, Fassbinder, Truffaut, and Antonioni. (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 13 Oct 2022
The Illusion of Progress
Red Desert Revisited
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964) is one of the most beautiful films ever made about ugliness.(...)