Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on The Deer Hunter
The following includes SPOILERS for The Deer Hunter. More than any other American…
Celebrating the Living: Stanley Donen
It’s not that he directed nothing but musicals—I will go to bat for Charade any…
Dissolve On (11/19/2017-11/25/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…
Attention Must Be Paid: Sharon Tate
It is an unfortunate truth that people assume that beautiful women cannot be talented, Probably…
Disney Byways: “The Reluctant Dragon”
While this was being made, the Walt Disney Studios were in the middle of a…
Year of the Month: Jacob Thomas Klemmer on New Hollywood, Commercialism, and The Star Wars Holiday Special
When did New Hollywood die, and who killed it? Ask ten different film theorists and…
GATES OF HEAVEN: The Thin Mew Line Between Heaven and Earth (Year of the Month)
“Communication between one human being and another is tenuous. When one of those human beings…
Year of the Month: Seth Carlson on The Swarm
I’ve been thinking lately about bad movies, in particular the various cults surrounding so-called “so-bad-it’s-good”…
Celebrating the Living: D. C. Fontana
For all the talk about Gene Roddenberry’s vision, I think we are unaware of how…
Dissolve On (11/12/2017-11/18/2017)
When the late, great website The Dissolve ended operations, its commenting community had The Solute…