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The New Old West Side Story

  • February 6, 2022

The Sharks and Jets may have been initially inspired by Shakespeare’s Capulets and Montagues, but the gang members we see are really first cousins of the “troubled youth” in popular[…]

Fargo

Crime · Mystery · Neo-Noir

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Film Noir, Bête Blanche: Blood on the Snow in Fargo

  • February 2, 2022

The horror in this film is not the noir violence that it brings to the bucolic Midwestern setting, but the inability of that violence to leave a mark – the[…]

Lubitsch

Comedy · Directors · Eastern European · Romance · Writers & Critics

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How Did Hungarians Do It? The Hungarian World of Ernst Lubitsch

  • January 27, 2022

Lubitsch biographers and critics have accepted the lore that the Hungarian plays he used for his films were inferior. That widely held perception has come about because Lubitsch’s admirers want[…]

Christian Petzold Transit

Drama · War · Writers & Critics

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Designated Mourner: On Christian Petzold’s Transit

  • January 22, 2022

The refugees’ babel is a constant background presence in Seghers’s novel, a kind of Greek chorus commenting on the various ship arrivals and departures, and spreading news of any developments[…]

Mae West

Actors & Personalities · Pre-Code · Sex & Relationships · Women in Film

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Mae West: Pleasure Woman

  • January 16, 2022

West is a born outlaw, a queen of the underworld who knows that two and two are four but five will get you 10 if you know how to work[…]

Get Crazy

Comedy · DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals · Production History

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“Baby, I’m Having Fun”: Allan Arkush and Kent Beyda Discuss Get Crazy

  • January 12, 2022

ALLAN ARKUSH: Get Crazy never actually got a real release, you know. It was in theaters for a month. . . . A month? I’m sorry, a week, in some[…]

The Apartment

Drama · Romance

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Billy Wilder’s “Home Run with the Bases Loaded”: Some Keys to The Apartment

  • January 7, 2022

In the corporate world the film depicts, the lower-level executives are small-time Lotharios who seek no more than sex from female underlings. Their boss, however, battens on the love he[…]

Scary of Sixty-First

Comedy · Crime · Drugs · LGBT & Queer · New Media

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Post-Irony Film & The Scary of Sixty-First

  • January 2, 2022

The Scary of Sixty-First expands the umbrella of “buzzword cinema” — it’s a Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy with a lesbian sex scene by a popular podcaster and it-girl of the edgy[…]

Passing Netflix

African American · Literature and Film · Women in Film

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“And if you can, why wouldn’t you?” Nella Larsen, Netflix, and Passing (2021)

  • December 28, 2021

The staying power of Passing in 2021 goes far beyond its ripped-from-the-headlines resonances, however. Larsen’s story endures, on the one hand, for its intricate depiction of female friendship, rivalry, and[…]

nuclear cinema

Essays · Pandemic · SF & Fantasy · War

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Nuclear Realism and Memories of Extinction in the 1980s: Testament, The Day After, and Threads

  • December 23, 2021

Excerpted from the author’s new critical study, ​Cold War Space and Culture in the 1960s and 1980s: The Bunkered Decades (Oxford University Press, December 2021), with the kind permission of[…]

Twilight Zone

Activist & Political · Asian · TV & Streaming · War

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The Twilight Zone and the Culture Wars, Part 1. Remembering to Forget: History, Memory, and Trumpism in “The Encounter”

  • December 17, 2021

This is the first piece of a multi-part, long-form series entitled “The Twilight Zone and the Culture Wars.” The series spotlights several episodes from Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone and[…]

Columbo

Books · Crime · TV & Streaming

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Book Review: Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective

  • December 10, 2021

Shooting Columbo: The Lives and Deaths of TV’s Rumpled Detective, by David Koenig. 248pp. Bonaventure Press, 2021. The story of Columbo is the story of Peter Falk. Not Richard Levinson[…]

Joker

Anarchism · Franchises & Series · Horror · Mental Illness · Mystery · Theory · Urban Conflict

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Framing the Mentally Ill: An Anarchist-Theoretical Understanding of Two “Jokers”

  • December 4, 2021

This article aims to demonstrate the ways in which media interests at the levels of cinematic production through to their journalistic reception work to control and marginalize certain progressive ideologies[…]

Hold Back the Dawn

Directors · Drama · Outsiders · War · Writers & Critics

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“Write Some Good Ones”: How Billy Wilder’s Most Autobiographical Film Was Directed by Somebody Else

  • November 26, 2021

Rumanian refugee Georges Iscovescu (Charles Boyer) conning a guileless California schoolteacher, Emmy Brown (Olivia de Havilland, in an Oscar-nominated role), into marrying him so he can enter the United States[…]

Godfather III

Crime · Drama · Production History

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The Godfather, Part III: The One Who Inspired It

  • November 20, 2021

“Dedicated to Charlie Bluhdorn who inspired it.”  * * * Not only is Mario Puzo’s The Godfather the stuff of Hollywood legend, but so is its turbulent production. Even after[…]

Out of the Blue

Counterculture · Directors · Drama · Interviews · Restorations

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My My, Hey Hey, Out of the Blue Is Here to Stay: John Alan Simon and Elizabeth Karr Talk about the Restoration of Dennis Hopper’s Masterpiece

  • November 14, 2021

Dennis wasn’t originally hired to direct Out of the Blue, rather he was hired to act in it. After about a week of shooting, the production manager, Paul Lewis, who[…]

Louise Brooks

Actors & Personalities · Directors · Drama · Silents · Women in Film

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An Innocent Lulu: How Pabst Rewrote Wedekind in Pandora’s Box

  • November 8, 2021

If she is seen simply as a free spirit, a woman who lives for sexual pleasure, and as exemplary on that account, a model liberated woman (as Louise Brooks herself[…]

Larry Cohen

Directors · Historical & Epic · Horror · Politics

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Five Screenplays by Larry Cohen: Bone, J. Edgar Hoover x2, It’s Alive III, Return to Salem’s Lot

  • November 2, 2021

I have been a fan of writer/director Larry Cohen ever since viewing his 1970s classics The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) and It Lives Again (1978). Cohen was[…]

Horror · Psychology · SF & Fantasy · TV & Streaming · Women in Film

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A Record of Human Matter: John Newland’s One Step Beyond

  • October 27, 2021

But that’s not to deny the series’ eerie impact, all the same – starting with the level, assured-past-urgency mortician’s cool of Newland himself and his unnerving, implacable smile. Is it[…]

Kaiser of California

Drama · DVD & Blu-ray · German Cinema

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The Kaiser of California: The Third Reich Goes West

  • October 22, 2021

Its release on Blu-ray is in some ways a belated victory for the film, whose unsuccessful release in the United States eighty-five years ago was a disappointment to Trenker and[…]

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