A Look at the New Paolo Sorrentino, Horrifying Brakhage, Neglected Noir

• A trailer for The Great Beauty

• The late Lou Reed’s new film

• Why Halloween is the best movie holiday

• When Halloween costumes were really scary

• Body horror by Brakhage

• Arcade Fire remixes Black Orpheus.

• The dark heart of noir by way of three neglected titles

• Good advice from the nutty professor

• Bordwell and Thompson’s Christopher Nolan e-book

• Norman Mailer, director and actor

• Female filmmakers depicting female desire

• Gravity gets an illustrious heckler (not really).