WATCH >> Martin Scorsese’s Life Story

Goodfella with a camera from Little Italy.
Part 1 of the Martin Scorsese story.

GO TO >> The Films of Mike Leigh at Lincoln Center NYC

Film at Lincoln Center presents Human Conditions: The Films of Mike Leigh, a retrospective of the widely lauded director’s career, running from May 27-June 8.

READ >> A Scrappier Model for Netflix Might Be More Sustainable

If you give artists a lot of creative freedom and a little money upfront but a big stake in the movie’s or TV show’s commercial success, more often than not the result will be both commercial (the filmmakers are incentivized to make films that will resonate with audiences) and artistically interesting (creative freedom!).

… As someone who has made both hits and flops, I’ve always thought it fundamentally unsustainable for a company to treat all participants as if they had made a hit before the project is even produced. – Jason Blum

READ >> As opportunities to see old movies fade, so does basic cinematic literacy

But what I would like to question — and, honestly, attack — is the idea of “old” movies.
Peter Bogdanovich, the late director hated that term. “There are no old movies,” he liked to say.
“There are only movies you haven’t seen before.”

READ >> Nosferatu: The monster who still terrifies, 100 years on

Even while he embodies unnatural evil, though, there is also something pitiable about the decrepit Orlok.
“He is utterly scary and devastatingly sad at the same time,”

GO TO >> New York 90’s at BAM

Unspooling at BAM: Kicking off with the 30th Anniversary special screening of Juice,
followed by Bringing Out The Dead, Jungle Fever, Bad Lieutenant, Belly and more.

Mar 11—Mar 17, 2022

LISTEN >> Melvin Van Peebles, the ‘Godfather’ of Black cinema

“My original reason for going into films was that I had gotten tired of seeing
Blacks portrayed in an image that I didn’t agree with. And so I said, gee, I can do better than that.
And if you don’t control your images, then you don’t have a base for controlling your destiny.
So I wanted to control how I was perceived. And therefore, I went into films.”

WATCH >> Remembering John Cazale

“All I wanted to do was to act with John, for the rest of my life. He was my acting partner.”
– Al Pacino

READ >> Archived 1984 review of UNDER THE VOLCANO

From the New York Times archive, a classic review of John Huston’s UNDER THE VOLCANO.
This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive,
before the start of online publication in 1996.

READ >> The Best MLK Jr. Movies Streaming Right Now

From narrative films like ”Selma“ to eye-opening documentaries like ”MLK/FBI“