Elise Moore is a Toronto-based author whose film writing has also appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, cléo: a journal of film and feminism, and The Threepenny Review. She co-hosts the podcast There's Sometimes a Buggy: Irresponsible Opinions About Classic Film. 
Directors · Essays · Genres · Horror
Roman Polanski was born August 18, 1933, making him 89 years old on this day in 2023. We mark the occasion – we won’t say celebrate – by republishing Elise[…]
Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Drama
You would never guess either from looking at him or from the “aw shucks” way in which he’s remembered that Stewart is responsible for some of the most erotic romantic[…]
Drama · Melodrama · Pre-Code · Romance · War
James Whale’s Waterloo Bridge (1931) and Frank Borzage’s Little Man, What Now? (1934) depict human possibility in terms of what can transpire between two ordinary people, while holding out little[…]
The gender of work in the work films is a spectrum that includes both the neutered worker of The Bellboy and The Errand Boy and the feminized worker of Cinderfella,[…]
