My friend Sam went back to Brooklyn and his gang of peculiar white buddies watching their endless Stanley Kubrick film festival. I shall not see him again.
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Why Can’t Female Reporters Stay in the Picture?
Journalists who get screen time are most often men—even when the original story was told by a woman.
What Ever Happened to Brendan Fraser?
A profile of actor Brendan Fraser — who was popular in the ’90s for movies like School Ties, and has been making something of a comeback since he was cast in The Affair in 2016. Fraser reveals that in 2003 he was touched inappropriately by Philip Berk, a former president of the Hollywood Foreign Press […]
What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
“We is an escape hatch. We is cheap. We is a way of simultaneously sloughing off personal responsibility and taking on the mantle of easy authority.”
Park Chan-wook, the Man Who Put Korean Cinema on the Map
Novelist Alexander Chee profiles Korean director Park Chan-wook as part of T: The New York Times Style Magazine‘s “The Greats” series, which also includes six other cover profiles: Roxane Gay on hip hop artist Nicki Minaj, Hanya Yanagihara on designer Dries Van Noten, Lin Manuel Miranda on lyricist Stephen Sondheim, Manohla Dargis on actor Amy […]
What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity
On the wonder and strangeness of occupying a perpetually in-between space.
More Than a Riot Going On: A ‘Detroit’-Inspired Reading List
The failures of Kathryn Bigelow’s film undercut the fullness, complexity, and beauty of Detroit.
Longreads Goes to the Movies: A Reading List
Five stories about movies, for your reading pleasure.
In a League of His Own: One Man’s Mission to Make Moviegoing Fun Again
Alamo Drafthouse creator Tim League wants to make moviegoing fun again.
Showtime at the Alamo
Tim League, the creator of the Alamo Drafthouse chain of cinemas, strives to make moviegoing great again.