October 4, 2021
Women in Film: Brie Larson
From saving the Avengers to fighting for diversity and equality, Brie Larson is a superhero both on and off-screen. The Academy Award-winning actress has used …
Anna Karina: The Muse of the French New Wave
In the early 1960s, Anna Karina played muse for one of the French New Wave’s most iconic directors: Jean-Luc Godard. Despite the ups and downs …
Ms. 45
A forgotten gem The characters in Abel Ferrara’s early movies kill with the frequency of teens that have just discovered a new high. They don’t …
Amira & Sam
There is something tantalizing about falling in love with someone from another country, someone whose mind has yet to be saturated by our American bullshit. …
Tale of the Dog
How important was The Family Dog in the general scheme of the 1960s rock revolution? Fairly important, it seems. There’s no footage of the legendary …
THE WOMAN WHO WASN’T THERE
Here’s our last glimpse of Tania Head, angry, tired of being harassed, staring down a documentary filmmaker’s camera with a look in her eye that …
MAN IN THE ATTIC
Jack Palance had appeared in only a half dozen films at the time of Man in the Attic (1953). Panoramic Productions, a new independent company …
The Man with the Golden Arm
Frank Sinatra’s film career is now remembered as secondary to his music career. But during the 1950s he was rated one of the best and …
Buster’s Last Shot: Steamboat Bill Jr.
Prior to the release of Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928), the hype around Hollywood was that it was Buster Keaton’s costliest feature, had been several months …