Michael Toscano is a film school dropout who writes from Brooklyn. He is balding rapidly.
From the Archives: On the Meaning of Baseball (and a Suggestion)
As the 2009 World Series begins, we might fairly ask: what is the meaning of baseball?
Kuleshov’s Effect: The Man behind Soviet Montage
We make films—Kuleshov made cinematography.
Seven Minutes that Shook the World
The Revolutionary Cinematics of Sergei Eisenstein
The Purest of Lines: Isao Takahata’s Final Bow
Despite its tenth-century trappings, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is a film made with eyes firmly fixed on the troubles of contemporary Japanese life and the deep slide of the Japanese Miracle into the dreary doldrums of the Lost Two Decades.
The hope of Hayao Miyazaki as discussed in Turning Point: 1997-2008, a collection of translated interviews, public statements, essays, etc., compiled from the years he directed Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Howl’s Moving Castle.
The Saturnine Age and the Modern Genius
Fine art is a recent category midwifed by the Renaissance humanists, reared by Enlightenment philosophers, and now, in the 21st century, it has grown old beyond its years and has forgotten its own nature.
On myths, fairies, and what Miyazaki can teach us about storytelling in the West.
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