My week at Spectrum Culture started with a review that took an atypically long time to show up, or at least longer past the original release than is usual for us. I received my copy of Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess after it opened, not at all the norm. Plus it arrived before a short week where the site took a couple days off, so there’s a layer of dust on the movie by the time the review showed up. Of course, that’s always the case here on the good ol’ Coffee for Two page, but it felt weird for me to be in that situation on the Spectrum site, like I was running through the door late for a meeting (I have a lot of experience with that).

I also wrote my first contribution in the new iteration of the Oeuvre series, this time tracking through the filmography of Vincente Minnelli. Part of the reason I submitted myself to write this week’s entry, on 1945’s Yolanda and the Thief, was because I haven’t seen many Fred Astaire films. Turns out this was a very different offering for the star, but it was also rife with interesting elements to write about. I’m back on the Minnelli beat in two weeks.