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).