Introduction to Bright Lights’ Douglas Sirk Issue
This is our first issue dedicated to a single director. Douglas Sirk was the logical choice. While not exactly a household word himself, some of his films were among the[…]
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What Is Love? Mania Akbari Talks About Life, Love, and 20 Angosht (20 Fingers)
This first-time director from Iran inspires cheers and controversy
Directors · Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Doing What Moves Them at the Moment: Five of Cassavetes’ Best on DVD
The master of improv gets his due courtesy of Criterion’s extras-laden box set
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Interviews
“Plant Your Feet and Tell the Truth”: An Interview with Clint Eastwood
On Million Dollar Baby and a million-dollar career
Film Technology & History · Producers & Studios
“Nice town. I’ll take it.” Howard Hughes and Hollywood
A salute to the playboy entrepreneur of Tinseltown
Asian · Directors · Interviews
Talking to Hirokazu Kore-eda: On Maborosi, Nobody Knows, and Other Pleasures
“I simply want to look at people as they are.”
In the Realm of Natural Transcendence: Emir Kusturica’s Life Is a Miracle
Out of the pastoral
Animation · Animators · Interviews
“It’s Amazing I’ve Survived”: An Interview with Bill Plympton
“The football game where the chicken mascot runs around crazy with an erection was inspired by a story that someone told me…”
How to Murder John Williams: Toward an Ideology of Contrapuntal Antirealism
To construct musicality through expressionism, or to express musicality through constructivism?
Norbert, We Hardly Knew Ye: Rethinking the Late German Composer
He composed “Lili Marleen” and, oh yeah, hundreds of other songs and scores
Capra’s Corn? Dante … Dickens … Capra …
George Bailey’s wartime America looks eerily familiar
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Blue Skies? Well, Partly Sunny
Fred ‘n’ Bing ‘n’ Irv, Part II
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents
Looking at Charlie: Keystone and Essanay Days
The first in an occasional series of articles on the life and work of Charlie Chaplin
All the Citizen’s Men: Kane as Welles; also America
Kane as Welles, also America
Books · LGBT & Queer · Writers & Critics
“I Changed My Socially Constructed Sexual Identity!” Jenni Olson on The Queer Movie Poster Book
“The butler did it … to everyone!”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cool: Appropriation and Prospects of Subversion in the Works of Quentin Tarantino
Overthrowing the patriarchy, one flush at a time
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Steal This Picture … Please: Yolanda and the Thief
Fred almost suffocates in Minnelli’s Yolanda and the Thief
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Too Much Bing, Not Enough Fred: Holiday Inn
There’s not much room at the Holiday Inn.
You Look Pretty Splendid Yourself, Orson: A Conversation with Curtis Harrington
On unfinished projects and friendship
Forgotten Master: The Career of Gregory La Cava
Lubitsch wasn’t the only one with a “touch”
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