A year after an underage Hollywood sex abuse scandal dominated headlines, Amy Berg’s documentary about a pedophilia ring in the industry is finally making its way to theaters. But it was a maddeningly difficult road to get there.
The BFI’s new boxset highlights the important part women played in establishing cinema as an artistic medium
By Joel David Of whether Nora Cabaltera Villamayor, legally a senior citizen of the Philippines and permanent resident of the U.S., is an accomplished artist there can be no doubt. One might inspect the record of her multimedia accomplishments – as recording artist, television performer, stage actress, concert act, and film producer and thespian – and concede that she may have excelled in many, if not most, of these areas; one might even be a serious observer of any of these fields of endeavor (as I have been) and assert that no one else comes close, although many certainly aspire to her level of achievement. Not surprisingly, the rejection by President Benigno Aquino III of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts’s endorsement of Aunor has occasioned a number of impassioned and articulate responses, starting with social networks, by now filtering through mass media, and inevitably destined to land in scholarly discussions, with the [...]
ON Friday, October 19, the fans of Nora Aunor sponsored a block screening of Lupita Aquino Kashiwahara’s incendiary Minsa’y Isang Gamu-Gamo. That night, the audience was composed of those who may have seen when the film was first shown in 1976 in moviehouses that were palaces. The country going through…
Adam Gopnik on pioneering cartoonists—including the Fleischer brothers, of Betty Boop fame, and Chuck Jones, the “Looney Tunes” maven—who were experimental, satiric, erotic, and artistically ambitious.
What Hollywood’s big-budget mythmaking spectacles did for America, and why it’s all changing.
A look back at some of the “It girls” of decades past.
No, the dog heads weren’t real.
The director on the unaccustomed glow of success, the robustness of children, and why playing the victim can be helpful
In an unprecedented collaboration, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSAA) celebrate the past and present of Australian film with the new exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.
Although the rom-com sidekick is a tried and true staple of the genre, not all sidekicks are created equal.
Sarah Larson interviews James Ivory about his career legacy, from working with Ismail Merchant and crafting historic love stories like “Maurice.”
Stars like Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan made their careers in rom-coms. Why have their successors stayed away?
The director’s stylish Psycho homage remains a thrill yet continues to face accusations of misogyny and transphobia
We began with a question — what are the worst-reviewed, highest-grossing movies ever made? — and found that Batman v Superman isn't far from the top of the list.
The actor still has hope in the future of Jesse and Celine, which means we might actually get to see them on the big screen once more.
Best To Worst: David Fincher's Complete Music Videography Ranked
Studios want to hire kids with genuine depth like Brad Renfro, but the system in place to protect child actors isn’t equipped for when their lives go perilously downhill.
Actors have always crossed the Atlantic in search of fame and fortune, but the recent slew of plum roles for UK stars has led to a crisis. Where are America’s leading men who can reclaim the silver screen?
Cruise, Kidman, Kubrick, and the making of Eyes Wide Shut.
Akerman’s films are largely about space, time, and, I’d venture to say, a particularly feminine sense of isolation, displacement, and ambivalence.
From Straight Outta Compton to The War Room to The Perfect Man.
Here’s to the old times and 36 years of ‘Growing Up’
Movie posters dating back as far as 1917 were recently uncovered on the walls of a shed behind the museum in Forest, Ont.
Whit Stillman and the Cast of 'Metropolitan' on the Legacy of One of the First True Indies
As it turns 25, Ed Power looks at how the gothic bonkbuster defied the negative press to become a huge hit that lead stars Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt should be more proud of
Whenever I hear people dismiss movies as “fantasy” and make a hard distinction between film and life, I think to myself that it’s just a way of avoiding the power of cinema. Of course it’s not life—it’s the invocation of life, it’s in an ongoing dialogue with life.
No more Mr Nice Guys! With his role in the HBO miniseries, Grant – like Richard Gere and Vince Vaughn – has swapped charm for smarm, reflecting a changing society
COVID cinema arrived not long after the virus did — but what do we want from movies about a pandemic we’re all still experiencing?
Not too long ago, Pixar’s Inside Out went on to take home every major film award for being the best animated feature film created that past year. I followed the film’s beat, from initia…
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: ... See full summary »
Richard Brody writes about the history of walking in film and how walking and its depictions inform his own cinematic consciousness.
It isn't as 'cold' as some critics say.
