Say “Slartibartfast” fast three times Well, Earth is destroyed, but luckily our guy-next-door, Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman), is best friends with an alien, Ford Prefect (Mos Def), who saves his[…]
It’s one step forward, two steps backward as our long national aureoline nightmare refuses to end Were you, like me, drawn as a moth to a flame to attend the[…]
Essays · Experimental & Underground
As the covert bottom-line interests of capitalist film distribution circumscribe our viewing options as much as overt censorship ever could, we should earnestly applaud the arrival of the new “INDEX”[…]
“My sound is the absence of me.” – Elmore Leonard The curious thing about Elmore Leonard is that while his books move fast, the films that capture his tone seem[…]
“We have all the time in the world” A cult audience was [. . .] recruited when the National Film Theatre ran a season of Bond films in 1980. Of[…]
“In short, completely normal.” A great deal of how the Third Reich presented itself and how we have come to know it is visual. Early on, the Nazis understood the[…]
Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Directors · Silents
“Love backed by force, forgiveness sweet, brings hope and peace to Easy Street” “Fulfilling my contract with Mutual was, I suppose, the happiest period of my life.” Charlie Chaplin had[…]
These “noble savages” — and the issues they embody — deserve better
Comedy · DVD & Blu-ray · Pre-Code
Cukor’s all-star gala remains a tasty dish
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
“The governments will be forgotten but the masterpieces will remain.”
Bring some dramamine to Fruit Chan’s best film to date
Documentaries · Exploitation & Erotica
“Going on stage would’ve been awfully redundant”
DVD & Blu-ray · Noir · Reviews
No matter what she says, don’t upset her
“This is the universe. Big, isn’t it.”
DVD & Blu-ray · LGBT & Queer · Silents
Kino’s unusual series spotlights German silent gay-themed cinema
Jon Halliday’s indispensable Sirk on Sirk has confirmed what Sirk’s admirers and students had long suspected: that his films are not all equally “personal,” and that he had a much[…]
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[…]
“Once upon a time in sunny California” reads a title card immediately after the credits for Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow. “Once upon a time” triggers an expectation of a fairy[…]
African American · DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals
You get what you pay for, if you’re lucky
Activist & Political · Animation
Trey Parker and Matt Stone fight Hollywood ignorance with some ignorance of their own
