“Blast Off Video, it was like a clubhouse for anyone who
liked weird shit and I wanted to live there.”
LISTEN >> Jackie Chan retrospective
The Cinematary podcast talks the career of Jackie Chan.
WATCH >> Dorothy Arzner: The Pioneering Female Director Who Broke into the Hollywood Boy’s Club
In 1928, after making a handful of silents, Arzner became the first woman to direct a Hollywood sound film,
and a decade later she joined the Directors Guild of America as its first female member.
GO TO >> Jim Jarmusch @ The Metrograph
The films of Jim Jarmusch unspool May 31st to June 17th in NYC.
Join Jarmusch in person for the Members Only screening of The Dead Don’t Die.
READ >> That’s a Wrap on Waste: Going Green On Set
“I’m waiting to get an Animal House kind of frat party movie and
just have the entire frat drink out of mason jars or metal cups
—getting rid of these single-use plastic cups.”
READ >> Béla Lugosi: From Actor To Activist
“Hungarian actor Béla Lugosi was crowned Hollywood’s Prince of Darkness
for his portrayal of the vampire Count Dracula in several films.
But today few people know he was a union leader
and anti-fascist who fought real-life monsters.”
READ >> John Singleton Did Justice to a Poetic Vision of African-American Life
“There may be no purer dose of early-’90s nostalgia than watching Tupac Shakur and Janet Jackson
travel the romantic-comedy arc, their progress from conflict to harmony punctuated
by the poems of Maya Angelou.”
WATCH >> Which Dracula Film is Most Faithful to the Book?
“Which Dracula movie adaptation is most faithful to the original Bram Stoker book? I wanted a definitive answer, so I selected 12 contenders and put them up to the test. This counts theatrical and television, but no sequels, spinoffs, or spoofs.”
READ >> The Cult of Climax
VIEW >> The Photography of Larry Clark
“If you’re going to photograph skateboarders you can’t run after them, you’ve got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera. I broke my shoulders, I got a lot of respect from them.”
WATCH >> Blocking High and Low
Analyzing 3 brilliant moments in the beginning of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low.