Fury
Fury (1936) was Fritz Lang’s first American feature film after fleeing Nazi Germany. The film is a not so subtle indictment by Lang of the German people’s embrace of Hitler…. Read more »
Fury (1936) was Fritz Lang’s first American feature film after fleeing Nazi Germany. The film is a not so subtle indictment by Lang of the German people’s embrace of Hitler…. Read more »
Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is just an average poor little working girl, a typist living alone in New York City. Every Thursday she sits on a bench in Central Park… Read more »
Dziga Vertov’s Three Songs About Lenin (1934) is a documentary feature that was made to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. Vertov was commissioned to make Three Songs… Read more »
Nan Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck) is beautiful, sexy, and a hard as nails criminal who doesn’t suffer fools lightly. She gets pinched pulling a bank job with her pal Lefty (Harold… Read more »
In Holiday (1938) a working class Cary Grant gets engaged to a wealthy socialite played by Doris Nolan only to gradually realize that their ideologies are odds. As the life… Read more »
Marginalized and oppressed by society, Black American filmmakers made their films on the fringe for decades. Black filmmakers James and Eloyce Gist made films to augment their sermons as part… Read more »
According to Martin Scorsese’s introduction to the Criterion Collection release of Redes (1936) the film is the product of a collaboration between the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas, the Austrian expatriate… Read more »
Cecil B. DeMille’s The Sign Of The Cross (1932) is one of the most infamous of Hollywood’s pre-Code era. In a film that owes more than a little to Henryk… Read more »
Murders In The Rue Morgue (1932) is the first in a cycle of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations made by Universal Studios. Murders In The Rue Morgue was re-cut and censored… Read more »
No filmmaker in all of cinema could rival Frank Borzage as a portraitist of love and desire. Borzage’s films have the uncanny ability of wedding fragments of reality to the… Read more »