On Jan. 21, 1958, Charles Starkweather entered the Nebraska home of girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate and shot and killed her father, mother, and 2-year-old sister. The two went on the lam, and Starkweather slew seven more over the course of … Continue reading BADLANDS
One of the more fascinating aspects of the movies is their ability to reach across time and space and continue cinematic conversations that started long ago. Moviegoers will be able to peek in on that conversation next week at The … Continue reading THE [FRENCH] CONNECTION
Since their inception, movies have always represented a way to escape reality. Be it the drudgery of every day or the horrors of wartime, flickering images in the dark have always imagined a better place, somewhere out there, over the … Continue reading THE WOLFPACK
If 40 years of Saturday Night Live has taught us anything, it’s this: comedy is the sharpest form of criticism. Biting wit levied by the absurd becomes the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down, and SNL has been spoon-feeding America since … Continue reading LIVE FROM NEW YORK!
Cinema is an expensive art. Cinema costs time, energy, and, most notably, money. This is even truer for the independent filmmaker, who lacks studio backing and must search outside the system for contributions. Most of the time, that money is … Continue reading RESULTS
Life is tough. Everyone knows that, but at some point, everyone must learn it. For Anna Sasaki, her twelfth summer will be her chance to confront that life lesson and learn to move through it. It is one of those … Continue reading WHEN MARNIE WAS THERE
Why do you want to dance?” the man asks the girl. The girl pauses and answers his question with a question, “Why do you want to live?” “I don’t know exactly why,” the man responds with a smile. “But I … Continue reading THE RED SHOES
At the turn of the 20th century, vast majorities of the planet remained undiscovered for those restless ones who couldn’t possibly imagine a life spent behind a desk or in a factory. If they had the notion and sufficient funding, … Continue reading SUNSHINE SUPERMAN
Becoming a comic means watching yourself die. —Lewis Black Are unhappy childhoods, pathetic sex, and general misery necessary to comedy? Anyone who has attended a stand-up show knows that’s the wheelhouse comics like to visit, but is it actually necessary … Continue reading MISERY LOVES COMEDY
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