In Douglas Sirk’s world, romantic love doesn’t play much of a part. His characters are boxed into ruts which are ever-deepening; they cannot understand themselves or their desperate predicaments, let[…]
The very strange, controversial career of Douglas Sirk raises perplexing questions about form and content in the cinema. For one thing, Sirk’s literary source material has ranged from Anton Chekhov[…]
GEORGE ZUCKERMAN ON SIRK Robert Wilder’s novel had been shelved and written off (because of Breen office objections and a threatened lawsuit by the Reynolds tobacco family) when I first[…]
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Interviews
On Million Dollar Baby and a million-dollar career
Film Technology & History · Producers & Studios
A salute to the playboy entrepreneur of Tinseltown
Asian · Directors · Interviews
“I simply want to look at people as they are.”
Out of the pastoral
Animation · Animators · Interviews
“The football game where the chicken mascot runs around crazy with an erection was inspired by a story that someone told me…”
This first-time director from Iran inspires cheers and controversy
Directors · Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The master of improv gets his due courtesy of Criterion’s extras-laden box set
George Bailey’s wartime America looks eerily familiar
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred ‘n’ Bing ‘n’ Irv, Part II
To construct musicality through expressionism, or to express musicality through constructivism?
He composed “Lili Marleen” and, oh yeah, hundreds of other songs and scores
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents
The first in an occasional series of articles on the life and work of Charlie Chaplin
Kane as Welles, also America
Books · LGBT & Queer · Writers & Critics
“The butler did it … to everyone!”
Overthrowing the patriarchy, one flush at a time
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred almost suffocates in Minnelli’s Yolanda and the Thief
Lubitsch wasn’t the only one with a “touch”
