The Aviator: Marty and Leo Do Howard
It all started when his mother washed his balls
Category: Genres
Beyond Subtitles: Some Thoughts on Viewing Foreign Language Films
It’s the visuals, stupid
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
No Cellos, Please, I’m American: Mike Nichols’ Closer Is Haute Merde
All glitz and no guts
Drama · Historical & Epic · Reviews
Plumbing the Depths: Renoir and Kurosawa Do Gorky
Criterion’s double-feature DVD features two minor works by two major auteurs
Distribute This! Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles (1961)
This uncategorizable classic captures life in L.A.’s seamy underbelly
Activist & Political · Westerns
High Noon: Liberal Classic? Conservative Screed?
Or something else…
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.”
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
The Interpretative Odyssey of 2001: Of Humanity and Hyperspace
More fun in the new (old) world
Secrets and Lives: Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
Punishment Parks: The Battle of Algiers on DVD
Look familiar?
“If I were different, maybe things could be the same, only different.” Leo McCarey’s Screwball Classic The Awful Truth on DVD
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne live our dreams
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Blue Skies? Well, Partly Sunny
Fred ‘n’ Bing ‘n’ Irv, Part II
Exploitation & Erotica · Festivals & Awards
Where Kink Is King: The 2004 CineKink Festival
Won’t you be my pony boy?
Odessa, Texas Goes Hollywood: Friday Night Lights I
Are you ready for some rural idiocy?1
Tears in the Astroturf: Friday Night Lights II
This feel-good movie doesn’t
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