Nick Hornby’s Screenplays and the Female Experience
How Nick Hornby became one of the most valuable writers for women in Hollywood.
Features
Bright Wall/Dark Room November 2015: “Possessed: ‘Vertigo’ Through Her Eyes” by Lauren Wilford
An excerpt about “Vertigo” from the November issue of “Bright Wall/Dark Room.”
Poetic Logic: On David Lynch’s “Mulholland Dr.”
A piece on David Lynch’s unique filmmaking in light of “Mulholland Dr.’s” recent Criterion release.
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Why comic books are radical; How Franklin was born; The Monkees’s “Head”; Burt Reynolds has some regrets; The “Ishtar” effect.
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Why Tarantino shouldn’t apologize; Gender-flipped “Ocean’s Eleven”; “Mulholland Dr.” is a movie and a TV show; Trumbo sisters are proud of their father; Why old women are the face of evil.
Shorts Films in Focus: “World of Tomorrow”
An interview with “World of Tomorrow” director Don Hertzfeldt.
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Nighthawks at the cinema; Rebecca Parrish on “Radical Grace”; Suicide harder to read than murder; John Carpenter on “Vampires”; “Sicario” not yet a reality.
The Return of Ralph Bakshi
An overview of Ralph Bakshi’s masterful career in animation.
Meet the Writers: Nick Allen
Assistant Editor Nick Allen tackles the Movie Love Questionnaire.
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Guillermo del Toro’s key theme; Silent frame rates and DCP; Exciting news from Sheila O’Malley; New “Star Wars” music; Unsinkable Effie Brown.
Book Review: “Gilliamesque: A Pre-Posthumous Memoir”
A book review of “Gilliamesque: A Pre-Posthumous Memoir.”
The Final “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Trailer is Unleashed
The final trailer for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” has arrived.
Book Excerpt: “Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled” by Ashley Clark
An excerpt from “Facing Blackness: Media and Minstrelsy in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled” by Ashley Clark.
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Raiders of the lost web; Eight highlights of Chicago film fest; Sexism of Bond Girls; Tarantino chats with Ellis; Enablers of pedophile culture.
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“The Martian” avoids the conventional; Jennifer Lawrence slams industry sexism; The Koch Brothers’ toxic empire; Pleasures of “Magic Mike XXL”; Movie titles lost in translation.
Book Excerpt: “The Boy Who Knew Too Much”
An excerpt from Jeffrey Westhoff’s book, “The Boy Who Knew Too Much.”
Bright Wall/Dark Room October 2015: “Guts & Glory” by Sophia Nguyen
The October installment of Bright Wall/Dark Room, which focuses on “The Knick.”
The Shape of Rage: David Cronenberg’s “The Brood”
An essay on David Cronenberg’s “The Brood.”
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On the set of “The Knick”; Swedish cinema gives women a bigger role; When Amazon dies; Stories of “Star Wars” extras; Chatting with Abi Morgan.
