By the mid 1960s, U.S. cinema was in crisis. Every year, more and more viewers…
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
A Window to the Past – Celebrating 15 Years of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
When I was eleven, the owl that was in charge of delivering my Hogwarts acceptance…
The Film Canon: Hitchcock the Paranoiac Meets Highsmith the Misanthrope in Strangers on a Train (1951)
When Patricia Highsmith left the theater after seeing Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of her debut novel…
Film Canon: Moi, Un Noir (1958)
“These young people are torn between tradition and mechanization, between Islam and alcohol. They are…
The Film Canon: Lucía (1968)
Alongside Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba (1964), Humberto Solás’ Lucía (1968) was one of the…
80 Years Later, Frank Capra’s naively idealistic You Can’t Take It With You seems more timely than ever
If Frank Capra’s cherubically bright and sunny screwball comedy You Can’t Take it With You…
The Film Canon: Matinee (1993)
By 1960 close to 90% of American households owned a television set. This little bit…
