Gerald Peary
The Road to Ruin is a practically unknown film begging for discovery, and to be championed as a startling example of pre-Code cinema. And as a keystone for creating a directorial reputation for “Mrs. Wallace Reid.”
Read MoreJohn Waters and I were in sync with our favorite in this year’s festival.
Read MoreWhat motivated me to read this book? Not for a special love of Midnight Cowboy, a movie which I like but isn’t ultimately important to me. It was to learn about James Leo Herlihy, who has interested me since I was an adolescent.
Read MoreA Reckoning in Boston demonstrates that fifty years after the bussing-era failures to improve the lives of Black people, there is, in James Rutenbeck’s telling words, “No justice, no truth, no reconciliation.”
Read MoreRIP Morris Dickstein, among the last of the generation of the New York School of Jewish intellectuals, scholar/critics of massive knowledge and intellect who came from humble backgrounds.
Read MoreIn its celebration of current-day Black culture, and of the vitality of Black youth, The Inheritance is an optimistic work.
Read MoreI have only one criticism of André Gregory’s fabulously entertaining book: I wish it was twice as long, or even three times its 208 pages.
Read MoreThe book’s conceit is that D.A. Miller watches films he’s seen earlier in life with enhanced perception because of the possibilities offered him through the DVD lens.
Read MoreVariety is wrong and cowardly to give in to Cary Mulligan’s misguided, damaging accusations.
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Film Feature: Best of American Film Noir, 1940-1959 — An International Poll
The results of a Facebook contest for the Best of American Film Noir, 1940-1959
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