Features
The editorial hub for cinephiles. Features presents articles, interviews, and reviews for independent films, international titles, documentaries, and classics.
The American Film Institute Celebrates Film Across Time
By Caroline Madden For over fifty years, the American Film Institute has been one of the most important organizations for the cultivation and preservation of …
Scarlet Street (1945) — The Darkest of Film Noir Cons
With Scarlet Street (1945), Fritz Lang delivered one of the darkest films in the film noir genre. Banned in 1946 in New York, Milwaukee, and …
Behind Closed Doors: Brian Yuzna’s Society (1989)
Society begins with a series of promises. A teen boy – Bill Whitney, played by future Baywatch heartthrob Billy Warlock – stumbles through a darkened …
Beware of Grown Men Sleeping in Cribs
The Baby is chilling Ted Post’s The Baby came at a time when children in movies were possessed by devils, dabbled in drugs, had multiple personalities, …
Carnival of Souls
Ever been haunted by a dream? Surviving a freak accident, a musician sits at a massive pipe organ, playing thick tones that hover between harmony …
Interview with Father Pedro Opeka
Nobel Peace Prize nominee Father Pedro Opeka declined an opportunity to play professional soccer in his native Buenos Aires. He chose instead to become a …
OUR FATHER
Our Father (2021) is a thoughtful, unique film made by a director, Bradley Grant Smith, who is unafraid of stillness. It is worth seeing. It …
Woyzeck: Germany’s Death of a Salesman
Herzog’s 1979 masterpiece still disturbs In a barren courtyard seemingly untouched by human life, a soldier appears. He’s frantic, running with his rifle. All around …
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. …