Year of the Month: Joseph Finn on DRACULA’S DAUGHTER
I do love these quick-and-dirty kind-of sequels that movie studios used to pump out like…
Year of the Month: REEFER MADNESS
“The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have…
Ozu’s First Talkie: Alex Christian Lovendahl on The Only Son
“Life’s tragedy begins with the bond between parent and child.” The Only Son, Japanese director…
Year of the Month: Liam Ball on MY MAN GODFREY
Genesis, successors, recognition — that’s all you need to form a genre. For the screwball…
CIRCUS (Year of the Month)
One of the things I love best about the first generation of Soviet art is…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on MODERN TIMES
I, a self-proclaimed cinephile, had never seen a Charlie Chaplin film. While I had enjoyed…
Year of the Month: The Dystopian Utopia of THINGS TO COME
The twenties and thirties were full of paranoid visions of the future. In Britain, Aldous…
The best songs of 1936, according to the Academy
Few Academy Awards categories have as dynamic a history as Best Original Song. The category…
Year of the Month: Joseph Finn on THE DEVIL DOLL
What if someone could shrink people to the size of dolls, but in doing so,…
Year of the Month: Persia on JAMAICA INN
“Respectable folk don’t go to Jamaica anymore. That’s all I know. In the old days…