Some people are never more alone than they are in the company of others. Adam is such a person. Adam (Andrew Scott) is a screenwriter living in a newly built high-rise on the outskirts of London. Not many residents have … Continue reading ALL OF US STRANGERS
Golden Era Hollywood screenwriter Frank S. Nugent once described story as a disturbance of the status quo: “Something happens to upset it; the disturbance is the story; and the story ends when another status quo is attained.” The Boy and … Continue reading THE BOY AND THE HERON (君たちはどう生きるか)
In 2011, writer/director/essayist Mark Cousins released The Story of Film: An Odyssey, a 15-hour documentary covering the first 100 years of cinema’s story. In 2021, Cousins returned to his monumental work with a new supplement: A New Generation. I spoke with Cousins … Continue reading In Conversation With Mark Cousins
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two can’t miss movies to catch in theaters: The Boy and the Heron and A Brighter Summer Day. Listen to After Image, Fridays at … Continue reading
Joseph McBride has written extensively on the Hollywood director, always when Ford’s legacy needed rescuing. His first book on the filmmaker, which he co-authored with Michael Wilmington and first published in 1975, has been revised and expanded and will be re-released by the University Press of Kentucky on Dec. 5. Continue reading JOHN FORD
A crime drama about rival street gangs, a romance between two high schoolers, a history of shadow politics, and a young man who feels destined to become the Taiwanese Elvis—these are the components that comprise Edward Yang’s 1991 historical drama, … Continue reading A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (牯嶺街少年殺人事件)
In The Story of Film, Mark Cousins traces the innovations and development of cinema’s first century. The book, published in 2004, spans roughly 400 pages with about as many photographs. Cousins’ 2011 documentary of the same name runs 15 hours and … Continue reading THE STORY OF FILM: A NEW GENERATION
The wonderful world of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Continue reading
It all started in Kansas City with a young dreamer named Walt Disney. Alice’s Wonderland wasn’t his first creation, but it was significant. The silent comedy, released in the fall of 1923, blended hand-drawn animation and live-action into something that … Continue reading WISH
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