The first cut comes a few minutes into the second scene of Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker, and it happens so quickly […]
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It’s tempting, when viewing the early Martin Scorsese short films and mid-length documentaries assembled in the Criterion Collection’s new Scorsese Shorts, […]
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When the semi-annual conversation on female buddy movies resurfaces, there are usual suspects. Thelma and Louise. B.A.P.S. Romy and Michelle’s High […]
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The 1990s were a strange time for filmmakers attempting to understand the Internet. As the technology went mainstream, with more families […]
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In 1998, Stanley Kubrick accepted the D.W. Griffith Award from the Director’s Guild of America. In his acceptance speech, he compared […]
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When Grand Central Publishing released a new edition of the novel First Blood in 2000, author David Morrell penned an introduction, […]
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John Frankenheimer’s 1966 thriller Seconds is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel as part of their Saul Bass centennial,and his distinctive […]
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The Harlem-set blaxploitation movies of the 1970s – films like Super Fly, Black Caesar, and Hell Up in Harlem – share […]
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The Shakespeare adaptations of the 1990s and early 2000s are unified by an excess of style, and by a series of […]
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Several years ago, while parsing out my love for the films of the late, lamented Tony Scott, I came to a […]
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Early in Claire’s Knee, Eric Rohmer’s 1970 comedy/drama, our protagonist Jérôme engages in an idle, maybe-hypothetical-maybe-not with his old friend Aurora, […]
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Imagine an early 20th century drawing room, or alternatively, a fog-laden crypt. Suddenly from the shadows he emerges—a man with pale […]
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