Scenes

Since I watch more films these days than I listen to music (D.W. Griffith would have loved Netflix), I want to write more about them. I've published a couple of reviews in Stylus already, and I'm going to be contributing to a new section called Scenes, the film counterpart to Seconds, in which a writer "dissects a moment in song."

For my first entry I chose Ernest Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise (1932), as close to perfection as romantic comedy gets, with a tone and glamour as alien to cinema as David Bowie's ethos was to most rock music. Get thee to Criterion's special edition, like, now.