Guest Contributor – Lauren Humphries-Brooks In the opening credits of Stanley Kramer’s 1961 film Judgment at Nuremberg, now on Blu-ray from Kino-Lorber, the camera lingers on an image of the swastika atop the Deutsches Stadion, as the […]
“A Star Is Born is a Hollywood story of, by, and for its people. It has the usual preface, attesting to the fictional quality of the characters and incidents depicted, but it is nonetheless the […]
Poor Judy Garland. It wasn’t her fault. She didn’t ask to be force-fed pills to keep her weight down during the filming of The Wizard of Oz (1939). Nor did she ask for the ensuing […]
B Roll is a weekly column that digs into the deeper cuts and lesser-known films from legendary directors–the good, the bad, and the awesome. This week, writer Nathanael Hood takes us on a sentimental journey through Vincente Minnelli’s […]
Yes, I know it’s a symptom of my having been born in the wrong era, but there’s something about the red orange cigarette glow of a bohemian café in the 1950s that drives me wild. […]
God bless public television. The public funded, by-the-bootstraps programming of the ’80s and ’90s, produced a seemingly endless wonderland of high-caliber, star-studded productions that, oh-so-cleverly, had education, not mere entertainments, at its core. From that […]
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