On the 50th anniversary of an essential Western, Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series celebrates Frank Perry's Play It as It Lays, as adapted from the book by the late Joan Didion.
Oral history of "The Golden Girls"; Spotlight on Bradley Bischoff; Francis Lawrence on "Mockingjay Part 2"; Louis C.K. on meanness; David W. Packard rescues classic films.
A peculiar film, poised somewhere between satire and dream logic.
During the earlier days of the Venice Film Festival, the face of Frank Perry had worn a slightly distracted look. He was there, he was listening, he was talking, but somehow his mind seemed to be on a slightly different frequency than anybody else's. This is a common state and not unique with Perry; all movie directors have it as the day for the first public showing of their newest movie grows near.