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It’s hard to remember now, but before Tom Cruise decided that hanging off the Burj Khalifa and the sides of airplanes was the proper way to entertain his audience, for the first 25 years of his career, the actor had been focused on director and auteur driven projects.
Read MoreIf one were to pull out a theme from The Birds, it’s that of chaos.
Read More“I love this dirty town,” Lancaster says wistfully at one point in Sweet Smell Of Success. For me, this line seems to linger over every scene in Marty Supreme, as if whispered to us by Josh Safdie about any one of his frantic characters.
Read MoreBack to the Future is not about time travel. It is about the universe looking at the McFly family tree, sighing deeply, and sending an Appalachian Time Lord in a DeLorean to make sure the branches do not touch.
Read MoreThe tomboy continues to endure as an endearing character in film. A tomboy is an empowered girl who is resilient, courageous, and daring.
Read MoreThe city landscape provides a unique backdrop to explore human experiences, and metropolitan films of the 1970s and 1980s reflected a significant shift in how society thought of city life.
Read More“That’s the one thing the movies don’t tell you: how shitty it feels to be an outcast.”
Read MoreThe passing of the original Arbor Cinema and Regal Arbor is much like the narrative of Austin itself. Several great, artistic institutions are now gone; all of them had an unfortunately short shelf life. But in those moments, filmgoers had wonderful memories.
Read MoreWhat’s the easiest way to get the audience to buy into a big performance? To make your character Bugs Bunny.
Read MoreAuteurism has entered the mainstream, and in mainstream fashion, has completed its metamorphosis and become what all things are destined to: a brand.
Read MoreAlien: Covenant wants to impart awe, philosophy, and cosmic discovery, but it’s actually a movie about logistics, contamination, and procedural breakdown.
Read MoreThis article is written to encourage others to endeavor upon their own movie quests via physical media, for there are adventures to be had and treasure to be discovered.
Read MoreJon Bois' documentaries often come close to scratching that itch for me. Through the use of charts, graphs, Google Earth satellite imagery, newspaper clippings, and the very occasional photo or brief footage, Bois and his collaborators stitch disparate lives into a grand narrative that means so much more than it seems.
Read MoreKPop Demon Hunters is most incredible in its unabashed humanism.
Read MoreThe Name of the Rose’s status as an arthouse mystery remains firmly intact. Annaud’s masterful direction of the medieval atmosphere and its commanding performances are central to its legacy.
Read MoreThis classic absolutely deserved its win for Best Foreign Language film at the 1965 Academy Awards.
Read MoreAnno's commentary is neither moralistic nor celebratory towards digital video. It is, as all of his work is, rooted in a deep empathy that finds a spark of hope within a pit of blue-black despair.
Read MoreTwo women, separated by centuries and circumstance, enact the same ritual: to remain nothing but themselves, no matter how lonely the weather.
Read MoreWhile other horror franchises churned out slop or went to space to stay top of mind, one franchise understood the long game and continuously evolved.
Read MoreLinklater is seen as a figurehead for independent cinema, and one of the biggest reasons for this title is the excitement that his films carry. They are rebellious and staunchly against popular films of their time. However, this excitement is not the sum of perfectly precise plotting with never-coulda-seen-it-coming twists—it instead comes from a distinct abandonment of these elements.
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