It’s that time of year again! This past weekend marked the 5th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival, which has grown steadily in scope and attendance since 2010. 2014 marked an expansion into additional theater venues– […]
Despite studying film for more than a decade, I had never seen Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975). This should not be interpreted as a disclosure of neglect or ignorance. Instead, it was because I felt like […]
Peter Bogdanovich is the closest the American cinema has gotten to having a Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut figure: a hybrid of film critic and filmmaker. After writing books on directors such as John Ford, […]
Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978) is the spiritual predecessor to Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (2011). Both are minimalist neo-noir thrillers about unnamed anti-heroes who are solely defined by their professions as getaway drivers. Both use their stripped down […]
When Warner Archive sent out the e-mail outlining their latest batch of releases, all it took was “Kay Francis” and “noir” to push me to request the c-level Monogram Pictures release Wife Wanted (1946). Francis, the […]
I can remember being ten years old and riding my bike to the local video store to pick up Robert Lieberman’s alien abduction film Fire in the Sky (1993). I was obsessed with aliens at the time, […]
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