It starts with a woman, naked and alone. She primps herself in the mirror, bangs on the brass bars of her bedpost in frustration, and paces the shabby room like a caged animal. What does she want? Sex, of course. … Continue reading BONNIE AND CLYDE
It started with an image. On Dec. 24, 1968, the astronauts of the first manned mission to orbit the moon—William Anders, Frank Borman, and James Lovell—were busy snapping photos of the moon’s surface when Borman noticed a beautiful blue Earth … Continue reading Jon Shenk and Bonnie Cohen on AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL
Dunkirk—the latest feature from filmmaker Christopher Nolan—isn’t like any other war movie. That’s because Dunkirk isn’t the story of a famous victory but of an infamous retreat. The year is 1940, and the German army has surrounded the British on the beaches … Continue reading DUNKIRK
Depending on whom you talk to, anywhere between 75 and 90% of all silent film is lost forever. The vast majority of everything produced between the advent of moving images in 1894 to the proliferation of synchronized sound in 1929 … Continue reading DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME
Elsa Dorfman isn’t interested in your soul; your surface is more than enough. And since the 1960s, Dorfman has photographed those surfaces with love and care from her studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And in Errol Morris’ documentary, The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s … Continue reading THE B-SIDE: ELSA DORFMAN’S PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY
Scientific people know very well that time is only a kind of space. We can move forward and backward in time just as we can move forward and backward in space. —H.G. Wells, The Time Machine Like most, this story begins … Continue reading HOW TO BUILD A TIME MACHINE
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost Buster (Rami Malek) just looks like he was born tired. Stuck working nights at a last-option hotel … Continue reading BUSTER’S MAL HEART
It’s only a paper moon. Sailing over a cardboard sea. But it wouldn’t be make believe if you believe in me. —Billy Rose and Yip Harburg “Paper Moon” The names Harold and Lillian Michelson are not synonymous with cinema, but … Continue reading HAROLD AND LILLIAN: A HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY
manifesto, noun: a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer What we need is works of art that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding,” intones the magnificent Cate Blanchett from behind a funeral … Continue reading MANIFESTO
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