“In Paris this week, a movie theatre has become an art school. A film…[is] showing us what surprising innovations, what emotion, what natural and well…
The Film Canon
A series of articles and reviews of older movies that have entered, well, the film canon, for being creatively or culturally important. Everything from Citizen Kane to The Breakfast Club to Fargo to The Dark Knight. So we can all create a diverse list of essential movies for the young folk cinephiles to watch
The Film Canon: Batman Returns (1992)
In many ways, 1989’s Batman was the prototype for all subsequent superhero blockbusters. Marketing played a big role in the success of the film …
The Film Canon: Psycho (1960)
Last week brought the end of the third season of A&E’s Bates Motel, but with this conclusion, audiences saw the beginning of the making of the not…
The Film Canon: Batman Forever (1995)
As the world waits for the next big screen iteration of the caped crusader, let’s look back and see what happened the last time the pointy-eared…
Casting “The Craft” Remake
Word spread like wildfire today with news that Sony plans on rebooting the 90’s cult classic “The Craft.” The horror film about a group of…
The Film Canon: Pierrot le Fou (1965)
The films of Jean-Luc Godard, that great iconoclast of the French New Wave, have always been so mired in an esoteric miasma of philosophical/pop-cultu…
The Film Canon: Black God, White Devil (1964)
By the 1960s Brazilian cinema was in a crisis. For almost a decade Brazil had suffered under the tyranny of foreign (read: American) distributors and …