In the early 1950s, Hollywood went into a “television panic.” Scared to death that their audiences were being eaten up by “that box,” the major studios were desperate to get their audiences back into the […]
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 […]
The Way West, a sweeping 1967 Western directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and produced by Harold Hecht, has a lot working in its favor: stars, scenery, a spacious story, and a stirring sense of pioneering […]
If there’s a particular genre film fans are obsessed with, Film Noir is right up there at the top. I can attest to that in my stage life as an Improv performer, Film Noir is […]
At this year’s New York Film Festival, two retrospectives were planned to coincide with the release of Bertrand Tavernier’s new documentary My Journey Through French Cinema. The first was a collection of French films prominently […]
At the heart of Edward Dmytryk’s sweeping Western Broken Lance is a simple quiet scene of near overwhelming power. Tyrannical cattle rancher Matt Devereaux (Spencer Tracy) and his four sons confront the owner of a […]
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