Quick Takes

In a review of Cannes favorite The White Ribbon, a critic notes it's "[s]hot with dry discipline in striking black and white." I can't speak to the discipline, but it was shot in color, then turned into black and white. Maybe it's just me, but this sort of black and white never looks that striking.

Meanwhile, the LA Weekly looks at a new print of The Bicycle Thief:

Although not a comedy, The Bicycle Thief was inevitably compared to Chaplin in its content, its structure, its pathos and its universality.

If you're not a comedy, the last thing you want to be like is Chaplin.