What’s Rita in the Hay Worth?: Fred finds out in You’ll Never Get Rich
Fred finds out in You’ll Never Get Rich
Unintentional Camp and the Image of Will Smith: Camp — and coded queerness — finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith
Camp and coded queerness finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith
Together Again for the First Time: Movies Holding Mirrors Up to Movies
Imitation: great for flattery, bad for art
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals · Reviews
The Sound of Jazz, the Sound of Gene: New DVDs offer rare TV appearances by jazz greats Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Goodman
New DVDs offer rare TV appearances by jazz greats Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Goodman. But where’s Thelonious?
Queer Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Slaughter Rule to Frida to Hell House
Hits and misses from the arthouse to the grindhouse
How to Turn One’s Back on a Tyrant: Part Two
The opposite of realism is not fantasy, but disappointment
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Sex in Shangri-La: Wakefield Poole on DVD
“No top, no bottom. Just two men discovering each other.”
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Reviews
Little Big Man: John Garfield Triumphs in Anatole Litvak’s Out of the Fog
Garfield wraps it up in this 1941 prole drama based on a Group Theatre production
Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar’s 75th
It’s contagious even Oscar dissented.
Bad Film, Great Soundtrack: New Orleans on DVD
How Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday saved New Orleans from the Yankees
“Fabulous Gowns but No Pussy!”: An Interview with Holly Woodlawn
A superstar talks Trash and papayas
Desperately Seeking Ginger: Hollywood Rhythms, Vol. 2 on DVD offers relief for the Rogers Deprived
Hollywood Rhythms, Vol. 2 on DVD offers relief for the Rogers-Deprived.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, 2003: A Review
Fine performances are the main attraction of this timely New York tribute to recent French film.
Fellini’s Society Rehearsal: Orchestra Rehearsal Reconsidered
In which “Fellini takes us beyond our frailties and chaos”
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
“I Like His Face”: Nicholas Ray’s Noir Classic Restored on DVD
Do you like his face?
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
The Beauty of Uncertainty: I Know Where I’m Going on DVD
Powell/Pressburger’s fairy tale comes to life on Criterion’s DVD
They Lost It at the Movies: Film Culture in the Age of Positif and Cineaste
“I can’t believe that you let those people put pictures on your skin.” C. W.’s father to C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde
Activist & Political · Directors · Documentaries
Bowling a Strike for Columbine: Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting
Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting.
From Joy Luck to Better Luck: The title is a little too accurate
The title is a little too accurate
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