It seems to me that one of the tragedies of film in the last twenty years was Robert DeNiro deciding he still wanted to work a lot but he had no desire to try or push himself in his work. One could argue it's the...
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Martin Scorsese gave a great talk for the 2013 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. It's reprinted in the New York Review of Books and is on the importance of preserving.
The director of Hang 'Em High and Magnum Force is no more.
As you probably heard, Karen Black died. A key actress to so many major films of the 70s, she succumbed to cancer. She could have had a dignified end of life. Or maybe even defeated her cancer. Instead, she lived in the United States, where...
I did a long-form film review for Radical History Review on films dealing with the global water crisis. The abstract and link is here; any of you with access to.
May your Saturday night be like Harold Lloyd standing on his head, risking his life for a stunt.
An outstanding obituary of the great Dennis Farina by Alex Pappademas. Farina is one of those people who had a fairly minor career in the big scheme of things, but who affected so many people and who everyone loves and misses dearly upon their death.
Well that sucks.
Because we all need to see Connie Stevens chase William Smith through the streets of Seattle in 1976 for 6 minutes on a dune buggy.
Although I could do without the big sweeping Hollywood music in the trailer, Steve McQueen's adaptation of Solomon Northup's slave narrative 12 Years a Slave looks to be incredibly promising. Given the deep attention to physical detail in McQueen's films and the fact that there...
And by this travesty I mean the threat of Steven Spielberg directing a remake of The Grapes of Wrath, a movie I would like to think exactly 0 people would.
It seems the Roberts Court also made a film expressing its views on American race relations and the proper order between the races. You can watch it below.