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The Cathedral at Ground Zero (Tom Sutpen; 2009)
A look back at the day when the site of a national tragedy was transformed into just another house of worship.
Kenneth Williams on Joe Orton
An excerpt from 'A Genius Like Us': A Portrait of Joe Orton
Danses cosmopolites à transformation (1902)
Neither eye-popping nor formally complex (relatively speaking, I hasten to add), Danses cosmopolites à transformation nevertheless has a charm that was very often hidden within the visual...
Across the Universe (Paul Thomas Anderson; 1998)
Amid every rash, destructive, feral thing that happens in the mere four minutes of Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Across the Universe' (1998), the overall bearing of Fiona Apple throughout is perhaps...
Hands Across Iraq (2008)
On March 17, 2003, President George W. Bush interrupted the primetime programming lineups of all major television networks and a handful of .....
And Biograph Was There . . . #3
On November 23, 1903, while dalmations and palookas in firehouses across America smoldered with envy, American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. cameraman F.S...
Sette Canne, un vestito (1949)
The industrialization of Northern Italy after the Second World War, and all its hideous consequences, was only one of the subtexts that informed, to one degree or another, a huge amount of...
Karin's ansikte (1984)
For a director who sought time and again to restate a past he could only have known from hearsay, 1984's 'Karin's ansikte', one of the director's few shorter works and one of his most moving,...
Nerone (1909)
Produced by Turin's Film Ambrosio, Luigi Maggi's 'Nerone' may not be as formally elaborate as the epics of Mario Caserini and Giovanni Pastrone . . ...
My Name is Oona (1969)
Far less critical of gender roles than her other work (that which I've seen at any rate), Gunvor Nelson's My Name is Oona emerged as one of the loveliest works in American cinema of the late...
And Biograph Was There . . . #2
On April 27, 1906, American Mutoscope and Biograph cameraman G.W. Bitzer was on had at New York's Ellis Island to record the goings and comings of newly arrived huddled masses.
And Biograph Was There . . . #1
On October 21, 1901, American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. cameraman James Congdon captured these images of construction workers at 13th and Broadway in New York city being lowered to the ground, en...
Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1939)
In 1939, Joseph Losey became a walking emblem of what is still a relentlessly paradoxical and fitful accomodation between the imperatives of art and progressive ideas...
Max reprend sa liberté (1912)
The beauty of this affable domestic morality play by Max Linder rests entirely with the actor/director's seemingly inexhaustible ability to balance his ineffably graceful screen presence against...