Often considered one of the great early takies, The Blue Angel will always have a place in history as the film that brought Marlene Dietrich to international stardom. When the film was being made in 1929, it was seen as…
Perhaps stung by the charges of racism that surrounded the release of The Birth of a Nation in 1916, when D.W. Griffith set out to make his first talkie he hoped to adapt Stephen Vincent Benet’s Civil War inspired prose…
Amidst the debate about the quality of movies today, there’s the loud, wailing lament that because of frenetic action epics (not epics in the traditional sense, but sometimes as big as them) like Battleship and the Transformers franchise, we might…
Shot entirely on digital video, since anything bigger would have caused more than just logistical problems in Kashmir, Zero Bridge makes movie history for being the “first narrative film shot in the Kashmiri language,” according to a review by Brandon…
Photographer Francesca Woodman died years ago. It is apparent from how her parents, sculptor Betty, and painter George, speak distantly of her. The pain is still there, but it’s not as acute as it must have been when they found…
In 1973, Ganja and Hess from black American playwright, novelist, actor and film director Bill Gunn was chosen as one of ten best American films of the decade at the Cannes Film Festival. However, when the film opened later that…
Lewis Fielding (Michael Caine) is a successful novelist. He and his wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson) have a young son, a big, beautiful house in the country, and plenty of hired help. They are a couple who appear to have it…
A glossy rendition of Eduardo De Filippo’s Neapolitan play Filumena Marturano, Marriage Italian Style is a comedic drama about the highs and lows of a lifelong romance. Starring the perpetually stunning Sophia Loren, and the “man’s man” Marcello Mastroianni, the…