
‘Casablanca’ was released 80 years ago today, and there’s a reason why its “La Marseillaise” scene is so powerful: it’s filled with actors who were themselves displaced by the Nazi regime.
Read more‘Casablanca’ was released 80 years ago today, and there’s a reason why its “La Marseillaise” scene is so powerful: it’s filled with actors who were themselves displaced by the Nazi regime.
Read moreDespite little fanfare, ‘Silent Night’ is a sharp (if melancholy) holiday film, capturing a Christmas party spent on the brink of humanity’s destruction.
Read moreWith three separate ‘Pinocchio’ adaptations hitting screens this year, it’s time for a 20th anniversary postmortem of Roberto Benigni’s notorious version.
Read moreTwo portraits of prep-school life and sympathetic instructors, but drawing on very different worldviews and outcomes.
Read moreWhen Orson Welles broadcast his immortal radio play on Halloween night of 1938, he began a tradition that has served horror well for decades.
Read moreThe inventive Polish-Russian filmmaker’s unique work would influence directors as varied as Henry Selick, John Lasseter, and Stan Brakhage.
Read moreFor a brief, bizarre time in the 1950s, filmmakers figured they could make a quick buck by catering their pictures to the newly relevant teen audience. Here’s how that went:
Read moreWhen Leslie Howard’s plane was shot down in June of 1943, it launched questions and conspiracy theories that persist to this day.
Read moreYou can all but set your watch to it, every time a new and potentially challenging film is released: the careful, […]
Read moreIn 1938, the gifted actress was struggling after a string of flops. She would have to redefine her screen persona to save her career – and she did just that.
Read moreThis Mother’s Day season, two new films are thoughtfully examining the parental relationship via cinematic magic.
Read moreWhen Howard Hawks’ iconic gangster movie hit screens 90 years ago, it had to do a bit of a two-step with the enforcers of the Production Code.
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