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 our language of film in a culture that values little but the weekly game of...
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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.
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 a university library should be able to get it. Others I'm not sure. But this...
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.
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..
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 find necessary or interesting, but then again Esther Zuckerman seems excited about it in the...
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.
Yeah, they look way more awesome and beautiful than anyone else's Polaroids.