The Unknown
Tod Browning’s film The Unknown (1927) was an inspiration to Burt Lancaster. Often, in interviews, Lancaster spoke about Lon Chaney’s performance in this film, particularly the moment where Chaney’s character… Read more »
A Slave Of Love
Nikita Mikhalkov’s film A Slave Of Love (1976) uses cinema history as a launching pad for a Chekhovian drama that critiques the Bolshevik revolution. Set during the summer of 1918,… Read more »
Giorgio Moroder’s Metropolis
In 1984, with the aid of the Munich Film Archive, musician and producer Giorgio Moroder oversaw the most complete restoration of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1928) at that time. Moroder intended… Read more »
Mister 880
20th Century Fox’s production Mister 880 (1950) was a small production that functioned as a showcase for Edmund Gwenn. Gwenn plays Skipper, an amateur counterfeiter, under investigation by Agent Steve… Read more »
Clearcut
Set in a region of Canada inspired by Oka, Quebec and the events that took place there in the summer of 1990, Clearcut (1991) tells the story of a lawyer… Read more »
Smile
Michael Ritchie’s film Smile (1975) is one of the great American portraits produced by the New Hollywood. 1975 saw the release of two other great national portraits, Altman’s Nashville and… Read more »
Summer Of 84
Summer Of 84 (2018) is another in a long line of recent horror films that draws heavily on 80s nostalgia. The screenwriters of this opus, Matt Leslie and Stephen J…. Read more »
The Grave
The Grave (1996) is an independent film from the mid-nineties that attempts the Coen Brothers flair for well scripted genre hybrids. The Grave was the brainchild of brothers Jonas and… Read more »
Alley Cat
Alley Cat (1984) is the story of one woman’s vigilante crusade against crime and injustice. Karin Mani stars as the sassy and jaded karate black-belt Billie. After her grandparents are… Read more »
Heat
After the increasing successes of Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and the underrated Women In Revolt (1971) Paul Morrissey’s films for producer Andy Warhol reached their zenith of mainstream acclaim with… Read more »
