Who doesn't like some avant-garde filmmaking showing New York? Ok, lots of people, but in any case, here is 1985's Battery Film, directed by Richard Protovin and Franklin Backus. It's.
Lewis Allen's 1947 film Desert Fury is pretty dumb. It revolves a fairly nonsensical relationship between a gambler and general lowlife (John Hodiak) and the rather dumb and wild daughter.
With one old queen at the end of the line, I thought it would be interesting to look around at the oldest footage of British royals and here's an 1898.
Discontinuity is a very nice short film from Lori Felker. Released in 2015, it is the brief and somewhat comedic story about a couple who are living on opposite sides.
Being a huge Paul Thomas Anderson admirer, I am surprised that I hadn't yet seen Licorice Pizza, his film from last year. So I finally did last night. The reviews.
The early 1960s was a bad time in Hollywood. The enormous bloated historical epic was in full bloom, with 3 hour sandal and sword movies. Japanese directors certainly had no.
Sometimes, we forget just how long film has been around. The first films of the late 19th century could document people that just seem so, so very far removed from.
Criterion is currently running a curated series of depictions of the Chinese in Hollywood. To say the least, it's a set of, uh, complicated portrayals. One of the more positive.
