Combining the gory fight choreography of Japanese chanbara, the proscenium staging of Peking Opera, the modernist editing of the French New Wave, and the stunt techniques of Hollywood, King Hu’s Dragon Inn was the rare […]
Director Lloyd Bacon and choreographer Busby Berkeley’s 42nd Street has rightfully been heralded as a masterpiece, but less can be said for the film that inspired it: John Murray Anderson’s King of Jazz (1930). One […]
Few films have been so passionately apotheosized as Carl Theodor Dreyer’s reconstruction of Joan of Arc’s historical trial and execution. What more can be said about its style, its acting, its editing, its impact on […]
GOP FRONTRUNNER THINKS PRESERVATION FINANCIALLY “WASTEFUL” As reported early this morning by CNN and HuffPost, Donald Trump, in a phone interview with Fox News’ Steve Doocy, claimed as President of the United States, he would […]
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