B Roll is a regular feature 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 unearths a curious gem from the great […]
Tonight, New York City’s MOMA kicks off its series Universal Pictures: Restorations and Rediscoveries (1928-1937) which, through June 15th, will highlight gems from Universal’s early sound catalogue. The festivities begin with the revival premiere of […]
Otto Preminger’s Bunny Lake is Missing demonstrates a kind of spatial hyper-awareness as it follows its American characters navigate the world of 1960s London. For much of the film Preminger only edits when he transitions […]
The man who brought us the best B-movies of the 1980s directs this late ’90s entry with the panache of a dead man by Wade Sheeler Oh John Carpenter – what happened? In the 1980s, he […]
Man, Pedicab Driver, out now on DVD from Warner Archive, is a strange flick. The tone shifts from slapstick comedy, to whimsical romance, to a very dark and violent revenge flick. I love it because […]
It’s been a week since the 7th annual TCM Classic Film Festival ended, and we are finally able to recuperate from four days of movie-marathon-madness™. The TCM Classic Film Festival, or “TCMFF” for us regulars, is […]
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