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Jun 13, 2014 — Last November, when we announced that we would start releasing dual-format editions, we hoped that we had found an alternative that would address our concerns about packaging costs across two formats, while guaranteeing that both DVD and Blu-ray customers would...

Rebecca Gilman is a playwright whose work includes Swing State, Luna Gale, Boy Gets Girl, and Spinning Into Butter. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for her play The...

Ife Olujobi is a Brooklyn-based playwright and editor. Their play Jordans was produced at the Public Theater and won a 2025 Obie Award for playwriting. She has been an artist-in-residence at Ars Nova, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Ensemble Studio Theater,...

Annie Baker is a playwright living in Brooklyn. An anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, is available from TCG. Her most recent play, The Flick, deals with movie love.

Charles Dennis is an actor, playwright, and author of two books on Hollywood, Talent and The Dealmakers. His new play, A High Class Sort of Heel, is based on the life of George Sanders.

Oct 13, 2021 — 1. In spite of Melvin Van Peebles’s well-earned reputation for being a provocateur and a disrupter, he was also known for his kindness and generosity toward others. Over the course of working on the Essential Films box set, I observed...

Jul 2, 2026 — This week’s roundup ranges from sad goodbyes to a silent comedy, from Hitchcock to Barker, and from video art to a cult TV series.

Jul 2, 2026 — I first met Courtney Love in 1994. I was twelve years old, and I felt ugly and confused pretty much all the time. I was slouching through the locker bay at Calle Mayor Middle School in Torrance, California, when I...

Jul 1, 2026 — BAM’s thirteen-film series dips into chapters of American history that tend to get overlooked on Fourth of July weekends.

Jun 29, 2026 — In the run-up to the country’s 250th birthday, several venues are offering prompts for celebration and reflection.