In Lonely Places Film Noir Beyond the City Imogen Sara Smith 978-0-7864-6305-3 978-0-7864-8908-4

Shiver me timbers. Fiona here. I’m tempted to write this entire review in Robert Newtonese, but I’ll spare you that AHARR! Sorry, it just slipped out. BACKROOMS is the feature film debu…

The late filmmaker captured our essential American institutions—and the people trying to navigate them.

When it comes to cinematic technological advances, the question is always how we use the tools we've been gifted or cursed with.

On the so-called “death” of theatrical moviegoing, Romero’s oft overlooked fourth Land of the Dead (2005), and a whole lot more.

Abel Ferrara’s movies are often driven by the consequences of extreme impulses. Much of his career has also been defined by a taste for immoderate behavior.

Looks like I’m definitely stuck teaching my Films on Film course again next year, but it’s no tragedy, I enjoy it and I can swap out the films each time. I suspect though that I’l…

"Like Hollywood's new postwar men, he offered a multifaceted, ambivalent masculinity far from monolithic wartime ideals."

Conrad Veidt, breaking arms with one sweep of his eyelashes since 1893. ‘He was tall, lean, almost transparent. He had an extremely intellectual face. Above all, he was not handsome in the us…

The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.