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If you will forgive a gross oversimplification, there are two kinds of people in this world: Those (like me) who, having seen Fast Times at Ridgemont High the night before the first day of their senior year of high school, made sure to pack carrots in their lunchboxes, and those who were too young to see it in […] A Virtual Table Read of <i>Fast Times at...

So much classic black and white footage has been digitally colorized recently, it’s hard to remember that the Eastman Kodak Company's Kodachrome film debuted way back in 1935. The above footage of New York City was shot by an unknown enthusiast in and around 1937. Dick Hoefsloot, the Netherlands-based videographer who posted it to YouTube after tweaking it a […] A Long, Guided Tour of New York City...

From New York City designer Lydia Cambron comes 2020: An Isolation Odyssey, a short film that reenacts the finale of Stanley Kubrick's iconic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. But with a COVID-19 twist. "Restaged in the context of home quarantine," Cambron writes, "the journey through time adapts to the mundane dramas of self-isolation–poking fun at […] <i>2020: An Isolation Odyssey</i>–A Short Film Reenacts the...

Image by Gage Skidmore, via Wikimedia Commons There are many more important things happening in the world than the tweets of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, but the tweets of J.K. Rowling are nonetheless worthy of attention, for the sake of fans of the series, many of whom are young and do not understand why […] Daniel Radcliffe Writes a Thoughtful Response to J.K....

Some of last week's major headlines: Police forcibly remove a large number of peaceable protestors from the area in front of a Washington DC church, so a 73-year-old white man can be photographed standing there alone, holding a prop bible. An unarmed 75-year-old white man approaches a Buffalo police officer at a protest and is shoved so […] David Lynch Recounts His Surreal Dream of Being...

Ava DuVernay made her award-winning documentary 13th free to stream online. Now comes her film Selma. The 2014 film chronicles Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. Ava DuVernay writes on Twitter: "Paramount Pictures is offering SELMA for free rental on all […] Ava DuVernay’s <i>Selma</i> Is Now Free to Stream...

Earlier today, we highlighted some free cinematic offerings online, including the new civil rights film Just Mercy, and a slew of films in the Criterion Collection made by African American directors. Then we stumbled upon this. Above, you can watch Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated film 13th. Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, DuVernay's […] Watch Ava DuVernay’s <i>13th</i> Free Online: An Award-Winning...

Most who saw the last feature by Martin Scorsese, 2019's The Irishman, saw it at home. That had to do with the fact that the budget came from Netflix, which surely aimed to get its not inconsiderable money's worth by offering the film on its own streaming service as soon as possible. If The Irishman's […] Watch Martin Scorsese’s Brand New Short Film, Made...

When beloved actor Bill Nunn died in September of 2016, two months before the election, his passing felt prophetic of more bad things to come. Best known as the boombox-toting, ultimate Public Enemy fan Radio Raheem in Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing, Nunn’s character is murdered by a gang of cops, who […] Spike Lee Debuts the Short Film “3 Brothers”:...

David Lynch hasn't directed a feature film in thirteen years, but that doesn't mean he's been idle. Quite the opposite, in fact: in addition to the acclaimed Showtime series Twin Peaks: The Return, he's recorded an album, written a memoir, taught a Masterclass, overseen the development of a Twin Peaks virtual reality game, and made a short […] David Lynch Creates Daily Weather Reports for Los...

As the last living major French New Wave director, Jean-Luc Godard has become a kind of oracle for younger filmmakers and cinéastes. Despite having turned 89 last December, he remains in a sense what film scholar David Bordwell not long ago called "the youngest filmmaker at work today." When Godard started working in cinema just about 65 […] Watch Jean-Luc Godard’s Filmmaking Masterclass on Instagram is...