A Triumph of Technique Over Meaning
The story is so current it seems lifted from today’s headlines: a beautiful blond toddler is taken from her bed while her mother visits a …
The story is so current it seems lifted from today’s headlines: a beautiful blond toddler is taken from her bed while her mother visits a …
Movies about strikes and labor organizers are not uncommon in film history – think of the “Grapes of Wrath” and “Norma Rae,” to name just …
There are lousy movies, okay movies, and good movies. And then there are classics. In my view, a classic movie is one that works well …
As Gore Vidal wrote his foreword to “The Impossible H.L. Mencken,” he was visited by a temptress – the beck- 0ning spirit of Mencken himself. …
Nobody in America identified “film noir” as a distinct genre when those dark, crime-centered movies, dense with fatalism and cynicism, were actually being turned out …
When George Reeves first appeared onscreen as Sergeant Maylon Stark in early viewings of “From Here to Etemi- t}j” the audience laughed and gasped, “Look! …
In “Washington’s God,” Michael and Jana Novak attempt to overturn the conventional wisdom that Washington was a deist. Rather, they argue, he was a Christian. …
Since the days of Marx at least, scholars of various kinds have tried to delineate socioeconomic classes and use this class analysis to explicate political …
Since WGBH-NET’s Frontline gained its reputation as the most serious American documentary producer on airwave television, precisely by go- ing beyond conventional understandings, I was …
With its tongue-in-cheek subtitle and clever cover art, “No Applause – Just Throw Money: The Book that Made Vaudeville Famous” by Trav S.D. promises a …