A. O. Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism—released in January of this year, to some fanfare—is a handbook for living by a kind of generalized critical “ideal,” one which combines openness to ...
Dan Erdman
Dan Erdman is a writer and film archivist living in Chicago. His articles have appeared or are forthcoming in The Moving Image, Filmmaker Magazine, Senses of Cinema, Dissent, and other publications. He is in the midst of researching and writing a history of moving-image pornography. 
Lotte Eisner Needs to Fly
Early in Werner Herzog’s 2006 film Rescue Dawn, German-born American fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (played by Christian Bale), shot down and held captive by the Vietcong, is given the choice to put ...