Film historian Maureen Lee Lenker is back at the Retro Set with a brand-new edition of her column, Dame in the Game: a much-needed, in-depth look at groundbreaking women in film. “I don’t want people to like me. Nothing […]
Much has happened quickly over the last four months. Progressives decry the end of Democracy as we know it, just as the other side celebrates the dismantling of our government and the disintegration of our supposed “core […]
Directed and co-written by Colin Higgins, the writer behind Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude, 9 to 5 is a cult comedy in which the political edges are dulled by a cartoonish plot. However, it might […]
[dropcap]J[/dropcap]ust one of the many wonders of silent film is that in every frame, a precious look back at a disappeared place and time is revealed before us. Locked therein are windows to the past. […]
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