I mostly hate the whole Star Wars series and am generally disinterested in science fiction. But as a man of a certain generation, I have of course seen all the original Star Wars movies, for better and worse. So Hardware Wars, which I don't doubt...
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Tuco survived that walk through the desert, but he couldn't live forever. Pretty close though. Eli Wallach has died at the age of 98.
I turn my book into my editor in 36 hours. I am delirious. The only thing keeping me going is The Gay Shoe Clerk. Ankle. Hot.
So I am teaching a short 4-week summer session course on Cold War Film. It only meets 10 times (4-hour sessions) so while the official course title is Recent America through Film, I'm concentrating on the Cold War since it's not really possible to do...
You violate OSHA regulations, you may become a superhero: In “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” Max Dillon (Jamie Foxx) is a mild-mannered electrical engineer with an inferiority complex. That is, until.
Too busy to blog today (in fact, with a book due in 6 weeks, that may be a not infrequent occurrence for a bit). But not too busy to put.
What are the best documentaries of all time? Sight and Sound is about to release a poll around this issue. Richard Brody has his choices, of which I've seen 2: Night and Fog, which belongs, and The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, which is one...
Bspencer's post about animated films reminded me of the great and utterly bizarre Vladimir Tarasov 1979 animated film Shooting Range. Part of the superb Animated Soviet Propaganda DVD set, Tarasov's.
Georges Méliès, The Doctor and the Monkey, 1900
On March 14, 1954, the great labor film Salt of the Earth, a fictionalized version of a 1950 Mine, Mill strike in the zinc mines of southwestern New Mexico, premiered despite being lambasted as a communist plot, subjected to police harassment, and having one of...
The U.S. military's use of film during World War II was remarkable. The bravery of the cameramen, risking and often losing their lives, in taking this footage is amazing. Of.
I am no expert on psychiatry. I do however have a great interest in American visions of the Soviet Union. Albert Maysles' 1955 film "Psychiatry in Russia" is a pretty.