Thumbnails 8/7/15
Daily Dot kills its comments section; Netflix’s racist algorithm; Veil of diversity in “Sleepy Hollow”; Warning for screenwriters; Why story structure formulas don’t work.
Features
Thumbnails 8/6/15
How to behave with disabled people; Hollywood’s terrorist typecasting; Laying bare the anatomy of Oscar-bait; Randal Kleiser on “Summer Lovers”; Clues to origins of “mostly lost” films.
The five arias from operas that movies can’t live without
The fat lady sings again and again.
Keep Moving!: The Films of Richard Lester.
An appreciation of Richard Lester as a retrospective of his work is about to unfold in New York City.
Short Films in Focus: “The OceanMaker”
An interview with the director of “The OceanMaker,” and the short film itself.
Fantasia Fest’s Frontières market is trying to change how genre films get made
The story of the fascinating Frontières market from the 2015 Fantasia Festival.
Thumbnails 8/3/15
The good kind of crazy; John Hughes’s original “Vacation”; How Charlie Hebdo’s money is dividing France; A dream undone; The wandering years.
You Picked the Wrong Guy to Bully: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper, 1954-2015
An obituary for wrestler and actor “Rowdy” Roddy Piper.
Thumbnails 7/31/15
How we process movies in 2015; Top Ten Pixar Movies; Christopher McQuarrie on Minnelli and more; Dangers of auteur TV; Dorothy Arzner retrospective at UCLA.
Thumbnails 7/30/15
Brando’s A-list acting school; Sex, death and Kubrick; Five Wallace essays you must read; Gendering of martyrdom; Hackers can disable a sniper rifle.
Art House Sirens American Western Blu-ray Double Feature: “Duel At Diablo” and “Monte Walsh”
A piece on two Westerns released on Blu-ray this week by Kino Lorber: “Duel at Diablo” and “Monte Walsh.”
Thumbnails 7/27/15
Tragic fate of a femme fatale; Rachel McAdams does fame her way; My fat, perfect wedding; Incredible shrinking worldview of Woody Allen; Marvel’s war on capitalism.
You Don’t Have To Be A Movie Buff To Love The Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Play “The Flick,” But It Helps
A piece on the play “The Flick.”
Who Gets to Be a Hero: A Look Back at “Attack the Block”
With John Boyega’s star on the rise with the release of “The Force Awakens” in five months, we look back at his breakthrough in “Attack the Block” and how it feels more current than ever.
Thumbnails 7/23/15
Art house film desert of L.A.; ‘Arrested Development’ taught me to read the scriptures; Stuart Gordon on “Re-Animator”; Stop writing think-pieces on what you haven’t seen; Missing history of Ravensbrück.
Thumbnails 7/20/15
Our racial moment of truth; Legacy of “The Shining”; Hollywood reaches a feminist tipping point; Christopher McQuarrie on “Mission: Impossible 5”; Ezra Miller and Michael Angarano.
Thumbnails 7/17/15
The pink ghetto of social media; Phil Joanou on Ennio Morricone; “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Do the Right Thing”; Memories of “Quick Change”; The Judy Greer effect.
Ramin Bahrani, Matt Zoller Seitz Discuss the Films of Oliver Stone
Matt Zoller Seitz and Ramin Bahrani discuss Oliver Stone next week in Brooklyn.
Thumbnails 7/16/15
Mindfulness is a capitalist grift; The web we have to save; Films of Ronit and Shlomi Elkabetz; Film writing on the Spam Internet; Time to retire the “lovable misogynist” trope.
A Trip Through Film History with Norman Lloyd
An in-depth look at the extraordinary film career of 100-year-old actor Norman Lloyd, currently starring in Judd Apatow’s “Trainwreck.”
