Back in 2017, Kino Lorber restored and released a series of films from Italian filmmaker Lina Wermüller, a powerhouse on the world stage. Wertmüller is still with us—she’s 92 as of Aug. 14—as are her films. Seven Beauties from 1975 … Continue reading Women Make Film: Lina Wertmüller
Born Sept. 2, 1923, in Kwilcz, Poland, Walerian Borowczyk was famous, then infamous, then forgotten. He made short films in the 1950s and ’60s, many of them animated and many of them showing the promise of a creative mind at … Continue reading LOVE EXPRESS: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WALERIAN BOROWCZYK
It seems fitting that Other Music’s genesis can be traced to Kim’s Video. Both are institutions of a pre-digital era New York City; both functioned as fertile ground for 21st century indie artists: Alex Ross Perry and Sarah Adina Smith … Continue reading OTHER MUSIC
I’ve spent a lot of time traversing the freeways of Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, and South Dakota recently. From Pueblo on up to Rapid City, my wife and I have hit the road exploring our surroundings and discovering small towns. Naturally, … Continue reading HANNA RANCH
Three plutonium triggers a day, 720 bombs a year, many of them thousands of times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan. That was the output of the Rocky Flats Plant during its heyday—a factory that produced nuclear weapons … Continue reading DARK CIRCLE
On Aug. 20, 1977, NASA launched space probe Voyager 2 with the expressed mission of exploring the outer planets of the solar system and transmitting the discoveries back to Earth. What, and whom, might it find out there? If Voyager … Continue reading JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY
In the wasteland that is 2020 cinematic releases, Netflix holds some hope. On Sept. 4, they’ll release I’m Thinking of Ending Things, the latest from writer/director/misanthrope Charlie Kaufman. We’ll talk more on Kaufman in a month, but today we turn … Continue reading WILD ROSE
On Saturday, Aug. 8, TCM’s Summer Under the Stars celebrates the work of Charlie Chaplin with 19 films—two of them from the 1950s, an era in which the movie industry changed considerably, and Chaplin found himself on the outside looking … Continue reading LIMELIGHT
On Saturday, Aug. 8, TCM’s Summer Under the Stars celebrates the work of Charlie Chaplin with 19 films—7 of them shorts from Chaplin’s prolific 1910s period, during which, he became one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and one of … Continue reading THE KID
TCM’s Summer Under the Stars kicked off in high fashion with a day devoted to the work of Barbara Stanwyck, easily one of the best actors to ever grace the silver screen. To name her best performances would simply to … Continue reading DOUBLE INDEMNITY
