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 […]
The Independent Voice: Steal This Story, Please!
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 […]
Remembering Tony Williams (1946-2026): The Last of the Independents
August 27, 2026
By Christopher Weedman and Brian Wilson, with Film International Staff and Correspondents Williams left behind a body of work remarkable in both its size and scope, as well as a rich legacy of students, colleagues, and friends….” Updated 17 September 2026 On the evening of April 10, 2026, the world […]
Marion Davies Delights in The Cardboard Lover (1928)
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 saw as the obvious and unflattering resemblance between himself and the captivating, though oftentimes repellant, character of Charles Foster Kane. […]
“Golden Age Thinking”: Kent Jones on Late Fame
By Jonathan Monovich. I find that the past lives in the present. Like Faulkner said, ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’…. Whenever there have been attempts to return to zero, they’ve amounted to nothing. —Kent Jones In the deeply personal My Voyage to Italy (1999), Martin Scorese […]
“Revival Means Giving Life”: Julia Marchese on a Decade of Out of Print and Repertory Theaters
By Ellie Dean. I wanted to show these wonderful indie cinemas that are fueled on pure film lust, and to hopefully bring back memories of the cinemas the audience attended in their lifetimes that were meaningful to them.” —Julia Marchese In 2014, Julia Marchese made her directorial debut with Out […]
The Helpless Clock: Time-Sense and Time-Feeling in Movie Viewing
By George Toles. “What time is this? What time is this?”…The way “this” made the moment a real thing the woman had not been allowed to know or enter.” —Harriet Clark, The Hill “and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.” —Feste in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What […]
Friendship Finding Its Way Home: Jeong Jae-eun on Take Care of My Cat (2001)
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. At the heart of changing relationships may be changing environments. I wanted to portray the moment when people’s desires begin to diverge. I hoped audiences would not overlook the real struggles faced by young people on the threshold of independence.” –Jeong Jae-eun There are films […]
“Much Better than Reality”: Julian Schnabel on In the Hand of Dante
By Jonathan Monovich. Some people only want to see what they expect to see, but I’m not that kind of person. Josef Von Sternberg was once told his movie didn’t seem very realistic, and he responded, ‘Of course not, it’s much better than reality.’” –Julian Schnabel In the truest sense […]
Channel Academic Publishing Launches as a Scholarly Imprint of BearManor Media
ANNOUNCEMENT: Channel Academic Publishing Launches as a Scholarly Imprint of BearManor Media; Editorial Director, Matthew Sorrento I’m very excited to share that we have launched Channel Academic Publishing, a scholarly imprint of BearManor Media. With Ben Ohmart as publisher, Gary D. Rhodes as Advisory Editor, and yours truly as Editorial […]