Mercifully brief reflections on The New York Times' "100 Best Movies of the 21st Century" list, plus The Official MTWZ Ballot.

Praise for Brandon Colvin's new live-action/animated double bill, along with short takes on a bunch of movies I have seen since April.

Ahead of an extensive Museum of Modern Art retrospective, republished notes on two recent video works by American avant-garde filmmaker Larry Gottheim.

Throughout the Love Tapes, Wendy invited participants into a small booth where they talked for three minutes about what love meant to them. The people who shared their views and experiences represent ...

Reflections on Starship Troopers, an infamous Rolling Stones doc, and other WFF 2025 selections.

Preview coverage of the 2025 Wisconsin Film Festival begins with a look at Julian Castronovo's excellent experimental feature, a "Wisconsin's Own" highlight.

From 2017: An appreciation of Jonathan Demme's anarcho-screwball classic and the globetrotting soundtrack that gives it shape.

A three-way race yields to an inevitable #1, followed by some less predictable selections.

A belated list of beloved 2024 theatrical releases. Plus: 10 honorable mentions.

My declaration of Substacking principles.

A quiet revelation of American independent filmmaking, Charles Burnett’s lyrical debut feature unfolds as a mosaic of Black life in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, where Stan (Henry Gayle Sande...

Zachary Zahos In the course of an average day, archivists at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research handle one-of-a-kind materials, whose historical value draws researchers from across the...

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The following notes on Lafcadio were written by Dr. Zach Zahos, Public History Fellow at the WCFTR and alumnus of the department of Communication Arts at UW-Madison. On Sunday, January 26, Lafcadio wi...

By Zachary Zahos The Media History Digital Library has recently returned from a trip to that most fabled and misunderstood decade, the 1960s, with a treasure trove of freshly digitized film pressbooks...