By Wade Sheeler For film noir fanatics and fans, Detour is well known, well discussed and well argued. It’s considered one of the great film noirs of all time, embracing the doomed characters, existential plot […]
Having seen a majority of Buster Keaton’s silent work (thank you Kino), one of the primary distinctions in his character is that he was never explicitly the Clown. That was a role more suited to […]
Today marks the 131st anniversary of legendary animator Max Fleischer’s birth. Last week over at True Classics, we looked at Fleischer’s gorgeous Superman series from the early 1940s, a series that marked his final work for Paramount. […]
During the early 1980s, Woody Allen was having a particularly fertile period. In the late ’70s, after hitting it out of the park with Annie Hall, forever cementing himself in the pantheon of romantic comedy […]
The concept of silence encompasses more than the absence of sound. Silence informs containing emotion. It reveals and represses our darkest secrets. Capturing the nuances of film remains a difficult task to accomplish. Through music, […]
John Ford’s Two Rode Together is not a good film. It’s slow and meandering; its politics muddled and confused. It plays like a poor stepchild to his better films. There are tips of the hat to My Darling Clementine, […]
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