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Aug 17, 2018 — Also, a personal remembrance of cinematographer Masaki Tamura.
Aug 7, 2018 — Can creative genius flourish on the federal dime? Animator Norman McLaren’s remarkably innovative, government-funded films suggest it can.
Production Notes
Jul 25, 2018 — After languishing for decades in John Waters’ attic, never-before-seen footage from the set of Female Trouble has made its way onto our newly released edition of the film.
Jul 24, 2018 — A feast of sumptuous color and cinematic imagination, Powell and Pressburger’s postwar masterpiece is also a powerful reckoning with recent history.
Jul 20, 2018 — American audiences weren’t ready for Barbara Loden’s Wanda when it premiered in 1970. A stark portrait of a working-class woman (played with raw conviction by Loden herself) who breaks free of a miserable marriage, only to find herself on the...
Essays
Jul 16, 2018 — In this essay originally published in the New Yorker, Roger Angell hails Ron Shelton’s comic ode to baseball as one of the few movies to capture the essence of the sport.
Essays
Jul 2, 2018 — Josef von Sternberg may have been one of cinema’s original micromanagers, but his films are testaments to longstanding collaborations with brilliant artists and technicians.
Essays
Jun 24, 2018 — During a period when studios gave him carte blanche, Josef von Sternberg created a sublime cinematic language that shrugged off one orthodoxy after another.
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Jun 21, 2018 — The American philosopher was an early proponent of cinema as a subject worthy of serious study.
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Jun 20, 2018 — A Motion Selfie is a wryly comic silent film made by a crew of one.