Oct 19, 2023 — Her entrance in the film is impossible to forget. She swings into the scene to serve a patron some coffee, holding a cup in one hand and a book in the other. Her diamond-shaped face is obscured, but her aura...

Aug 28, 2020 — “Anyone with that kind of brilliance, you just give them space . . . She was a kind of unique, extraordinary, eccentric wild animal. And some jewels came out of her mouth.” Richard Gere On Halloween 1978, a month after...

Linda Ruth Williams is Professor of Film at Exeter University. She has written and edited numerous books and articles on contemporary cinema, feminism, sexuality, and censorship, including Sex in the Head: Visions of Femininity and Film in D. H. Lawrence;...

Linda Yablonsky is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel, an essayist, and a journalist covering the contemporary art scene around the world.

Aug 20, 2020 — The one-of-a-kind actress gave us unforgettable performances in Days of Heaven and Out of the Blue.

Feb 18, 2008 — Actor and writer Linda Sandoval met Alex Cox in 1983, when her husband, Miguel Sandoval, was cast in Repo Man (she recalls that Cox phoned to say he had good news and bad news: the bad news was that Miguel...

Mar 27, 2018 — At the height of his career, Ken Russell brought D. H. Lawrence’s classic exploration of human sexuality to the screen with frank eroticism and visual panache.

Mar 21, 2017 — A “celluloid atrocity” overflowing with deviant shenanigans, John Waters’s low-budget satire makes mincemeat of the peace-and-love era.

Jun 30, 2017 — Film scholar Linda Williams explores the political implications of Sam Peckinpah’s brutal suspense film and its highly controversial intermingling of sex and violence.