Category: Woody Allen

My 2025 Personal Film Festival, Part 3 and Conclusion

For Parts 1 and 2 of this series, please see here and here. Just to reiterate, I am not a film critic in the traditional sense, merely an autodidactic lover of film and film history who curated his own, somewhat random, film festival over the first four months of 2025. It began when my wife … Continue reading My 2025 Personal Film Festival, Part 3 and Conclusion →

Matt Berger 1980s Teen Films, Alan Moore, All About Eve, Almost Famous, Anne Baxter, Anomalisa, Anthony Edwards, Atheism, Before Sunrise, Blank City, Cameron Crowe, Charlie Kaufman, Dashiell Hammett, David Lynch, David Thewlis, Dazed and Confused, Denis Villeneuve, Don't Say a Word, Enemy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Film, Hammett, HistoryBuffs, Hugo Weaving, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Interrogating Memory, Jake Gyllenhall, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jim Jarmusch, John Hurt, Kevin Bacon, Liquid Sky, Martin Scorsese, Miracle Mile, Morgan Richter, My life, Nastassja Kinski, Natalie Portman, Paris Texas, Philadelphia, Prisoners, Punk, Richard Linklater, Slacker, Smithereens, Surrealism, Susan Seidelman, Taxi Driver, The Shadow, The Sixth Sense, The Sure Thing, Toni Collette, V For Vendetta, Wavelength, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen 1 Comment May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 16 Minutes

My 100 Favorite Films…Probably

[Ed. note: This essay was updated on April 1, 2025] On December 1, 2022, Sight and Sound Magazine released the results of its decennial Greatest Films of All Time Critics’ Poll (“SS Poll”). The key result is that Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles dethroned Vertigo as the “greatest film of all time.”[1] … Continue reading My 100 Favorite Films…Probably →

Matt Berger A Night at the Opera, Alfred Hitchcock, Back to the Future, Charlie Chan, Data collection, David Lynch, Double Indemnity, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Film, Film Noir, Hammett, L.A. Confidential, Marx Brothers, Measurement, Murder on the Orient Express, My life, Neo Noir, Otto Preminger, Robert Siodmak, Sidney Lumet, Statistical reasonsing, Thank God Its Friday, The Cotton Club, The Maltese Falcon, The Public Eye, The Sure Thing, Times Square, Woody Allen 8 Comments January 14, 2023April 1, 2025 21 Minutes

I Never Wrote the Most Important Story I Ever Wrote, Part 5

Part 1 of this essay may be found here. Part 2 of this essay may be found here. Part 3 of this essay may be found here. Part 4 of this essay may be found here. When I sat down to write this multi-part essay – which has taken on an interrogating memory life of … Continue reading I Never Wrote the Most Important Story I Ever Wrote, Part 5 →

Matt Berger Baltimore, Interrogating Memory, My life, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia Phillies, Relationships, Romance, Roxy Music, Valentine's Day, Waffle House, Woody Allen, Writing 8 Comments June 12, 2022April 15, 2025 12 Minutes

Separating the art from the artist

The director David Lynch—who I dressed as this past Halloween—gave this response to a question about the meaning of a puzzling moment toward the end of episode 15 of Twin Peaks: The Return. “What matters is what you believe happened,” he clarified. “That’s the whole thing. There are lots of things in life, and we wonder about … Continue reading Separating the art from the artist →