Tag: cinema

Michael Musto sings the praises of his favorite cinematic clunkers.

Ahistorical narratives of racial uplift and singular heroes deny complexity and are devoid of real politics.

Alamo Drafthouse creator Tim League wants to make moviegoing fun again.

“We have to get rid of the romantic part.”

In the Los Angeles Times, Jeffrey Fleishman profiles two young Angelenos trying not to break down as they try to break into show business.

Frederick McKindra examines how James DeMonaco’s The Purge and Jordan Peele’s Get Out turn the the horror genre’s racial dynamics upside down.

Readers often wonder how much of an author’s real life ends up in their novels. In 2013 in the Virginia Quarterly Review, novelist Nina Revoyr described how she combined elements of her life with the real lives of silent-film era actors Sessue Hayakawa and Mary Miles Minter in her book The Age of Dreaming. Revoyr […]

Ghost stories.

“The State of the Cinema.” Steven Soderbergh, Film Comment.