No matter what is said about how a movie gets made, one fact is inescapable:
until the screenwriter does his job, nobody else, like actors, can do theirs.
Until the screenwriter does his job, nobody else has a job. In other words,
he is the asshole who keeps everybody else from going to work.
This July, at BAM in Brooklyn, NY: This series gathers together many of Spacek’s and Duvall’s films from the mid to late 70s, including classics like The Shining, Badlands, Carrie, Brewster McCloud, and more, with a special spotlight on their singular collaboration in Robert Altman’s masterpiece 3 Women. Take stock of the exceptional talents of two of Hollywood’s most distinctive actresses in this outrageously fun collection of genre-spanning classics.
‘Keep putting yourself out where you belong’ says Cheryl Dunye,
the filmmaker who shaped how Black LGBTQ+ stories are told.
The Late-Great Roger Corman talks career, his influence on filmmakers
and bringing Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers to the Drive-In.
R.I.P. Roger Corman
Happy Mother’s Day
“Everything is available on streaming”… well it kind of isn’t.
And the thing that is available on streaming could just not be tomorrow,
if two companies you don’t care about get in a fight about licensing.
This isn’t at all surprising. Apple doesn’t release its original films on physical media.
In fact, the streamer still hasn’t released their 2021 Best Picture winner CODA —
it remains the only Best Picture winner to have never been available on physical media.
The actor’s Killers of the Flower Moon performance isn’t just great.
It’s important.
The tenth edition of Cinema Revival, the festival of film restoration at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH, will open this Wednesday, Feb 28th. Kicking off with Ceddo (1977),
a film by Ousmane Sembène.
Susan Seidelman looks back at the decade when she moved
American Cinema beyond suburban housewives.