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.
Features
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.”
A Movie Under the Stars
An ode to the dying art form of the drive-in movie theater.
Thumbnails 7/14/15
Amy Winehouse’s “Frank”; “Mr. Robot” is the spiritual successor of “Fight Club”; “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” director Burr Steers; Uncertain future of film criticism; Joe Gibbons goes to prison.
Bright Wall/Dark Room Excerpt July 2015: “Juggling Wolves” by Kelsey Ford
An essay on “Rear Window” from the July 2015 edition of Bright Wall/Dark Room.
In praise of Sadness: the healing insight of “Inside Out”
“Inside Out” normalizes sadness. That’s one of reasons it’s great.
Thumbnails 7/10/15
How women get a raw deal in Hollywood; The end of The Dissolve; Millennial poverty and its roots; Misplaced nostalgia for “The Graduate”; Tom Hanks at his finest.
Meet the Writers: Matt Zoller Seitz
Editor in Chief Matt Zoller Seitz responds to our Movie Love Questionnaire.
Thumbnails 7/9/15
Jackie Fuchs of The Runaways; Importance of The Awl; Hard to be Aleksei German; Sneaky power of Amy Schumer; Danny Elfman on eight of his classic scores.
