Autobiographical Traces, Community, and Milestones of Filmmaking: Charles Burnett on My Brother’s Wedding (1983)
By M. Sellers Johnson. catches me at a strange moment because I’m caught up and trying to get some things
By M. Sellers Johnson. catches me at a strange moment because I’m caught up and trying to get some things
By Yun-hua Chen. I felt that my job was to interfere with that as little as possible."–Shuntaro Uchida Ten-year-old Kozue
By Thomas M. Puhr. Corbijn and company have crafted an engaging, surprisingly funny examination of how fiction allows you to experience the life or death (or sex, for that matter)
A Book Review by Ali Moosavi. Cannot be classified as, nor does it claim to be, a biography of Alfred Hitchcock Hitchcock: The Man, The Myths, The Legacy is essential
By Thomas M. Puhr. It would be all-too-easy to criticize Wilson for both his scattershot approach and seeming off-the-cuff attitude... but a mandala-like design ties everything into a cohesive whole."
By Thomas M. Puhr. By turns funny, subversive, and formally playful, they are lovely paeans to female friendship." A few years ago, I reconnected with a college friend on social
By Anees Aref. In a time where the U.S. President declares the media as the 'enemy of the people,' openly profits from his office, kidnaps foreign heads of state, and
By Jeremy Carr. Robert Z. Leonard knows what he has to work with and makes the most of Davies’s giddy promise." William Randolph Hearst was famously perturbed by what he
By Thomas M. Puhr. Like their traditional method of travel, Nick and Liam’s temporal destination underlines Jenkin’s disinterest in sci-fi spectacle." Time travel stories naturally conflate space and time. In such
By Ellie Dean. Unusually for a film (ostensibly) produced for the American audience—it is the Filipino perspective that is most often preferenced. The emotional authenticity of Ortaliz’s performance as Dalisay
By Thomas M. Puhr. Corbijn and company have crafted an engaging, surprisingly funny examination of how fiction allows you to experience the life or death (or sex, for that matter) you think you deserve.” Tom Ripley has become so ingrained in the cultural consciousness that even someone who has never […]
A Book Review by Ali Moosavi. Cannot be classified as, nor does it claim to be, a biography of Alfred Hitchcock [but] Hitchcock: The Man, The Myths, The Legacy is essential reading to obtain a balanced view of this iconic director.” Alfred Hitchcok and Stanley Kubrick are perhaps the two […]
By Gary D. Rhodes. Peter Lorre’s flair for black comedy shines brightly, like a harvest moon casting dark shadows on All Hallow’s Eve…. Lorre lives, even in death.” What a wonderfully paradoxical title: The Comedy of Terrors (1963), one of Peter Lorre’s last films, and the very last to be […]
By Thomas M. Puhr. It would be all-too-easy to criticize Wilson for both his scattershot approach and seeming off-the-cuff attitude… but a mandala-like design ties everything into a cohesive whole.” Dank water floods a gym locker room. A dog pukes from the window of a speeding car. A self-driving delivery […]
By Thomas Gladysz. For decades, it’s been said G. W. Pabst cast Louise Brooks in Pandora’s Box after having seen her in A Girl in Every Port. It’s an assertion repeated so often it has become fact, part of the legend which surrounds not only the acclaimed German film, but […]
By M. Sellers Johnson. [The new 4k restoration of My Brother’s Wedding] catches me at a strange moment because I’m caught up and trying to get some things done, and they’re not working out quite as well as I’d love them to. But things sort of take their time, you […]
By Yun-hua Chen. I felt that my job was to interfere with that as little as possible.” –Shuntaro Uchida Ten-year-old Kozue (Karin) feels out of place at school. She doesn’t have any peer to talk to and likes tossing randomly procured objects into the school’s incinerator. The university student Jinta […]
By Thomas M. Puhr. By turns funny, subversive, and formally playful, they are lovely paeans to female friendship.” A few years ago, I reconnected with a college friend on social media. Our online conversations were pleasant enough, but I felt a pang of anxiety when we set a date to […]
By Ellie Dean. I wanted to show what it’s really like on Kentish Town Road, which is my high street in London—and a pretty grimy, gritty place. There’s something really fun about putting a movie star into that kind of place and watching the reactions of the real people as […]
By Anees Aref. In a time where the U.S. President declares the media as the ‘enemy of the people,’ openly profits from his office, kidnaps foreign heads of state, and wages an unprovoked (and many would say illegal) war against Iran, we need people like Amy Goodman.” At the beginning […]