What we’ve been reading – July 16th through July 17th:

• Underneath the Bottle: "In A Lonely Place" and Alcoholism
  Glenn Kenny looks at "In a Lonely Place" as a subtle portrait of Dix Steele's alcholism – I'd never looked at the film quite that way before.
• Rio Bravo :: rogerebert.com :: Great Movies
  Howard Hawks' sprawling yet tight Western is given the Great Movie treatment.
• The House Next Door: This Movie is Trying to Break Your Heart: Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place
  The fantastic "In a Lonely Place" is playing at Film Forum in NYC this week, which has prompted multiple post about it around the blogosphere – in this one, Kim Morgan and Matt Zoller Seitz team up with a video essay exploring the film as a heartbreaking noir romance.
• Antichrist: a work of genius or the sickest film in the history of cinema?
  With its explicit sex and scene of female genital mutilation, Lars von Trier's Antichrist scandalised Cannes this year. Samantha Morton, Gillian Wearing and other women artists and academics give their opinion of the Danish director's provocative new film