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Blow the Man Down Blow The Man Down isn't an earth-shaker, but it's a small pleasure that makes you wish for more from its filmmakers, and soon. Tiger King immerses viewers in a mind-boggling lifestyle and series of scandals that are truly unbelievable, and yet the term true-crime doesn't do justice to...
Online spaces embody Aldo Rossi's view of the city as "the collective memory of its people." In 1921, photographers Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler shot one of the first city symphony films in the US.
Blow the Man Down Blow The Man Down isn't an earth-shaker, but it's a small pleasure that makes you wish for more from its filmmakers, and soon. Tiger King immerses viewers in a mind-boggling lifestyle and series of scandals that are truly unbelievable, and yet the term true-crime doesn't do justice to...
My fascination with nuns in cinema began in high school. I attended a Montreal all-girls Catholic academy and did little socializing outside the institute's walls. The school had once served as the residence of Canada's Governor General, until Loyalist rebels burned down the building in 1849, forcing the Governor to flee with his family.
Do I want to cry or wretch? The vulgarity of the clichéd melodrama is overwhelming, but because a dying Ali MacGraw is so beautiful, young and in love, I'm weeping. The terminal romance genre has almost always been booming.
There's something special happening at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto. It's just after midnight, early Monday morning. Rose Glass, the director of Saint Maud, is about to present her first feature film to over a thousand horror fans.
"What do you see when you look in the mirror? I see the scar above my lip from chicken pox, my mother's smile and I hear my high school friend screaming out my nickname, 'cheekbones.'
In the landscape of the erotic imagination, no one has quite captured the dirty appeal of Harvey Keitel quite like Jane Campion. Beyond his early upshot roles in Martin Scorsese films like Who's That Knocking at My Door and Mean Streets, where he still had that youthful bounce and that devil's smile, Keitel's sex appeal is not quite so obvious.
Experimental filmmaker Laura Huertas Millán talks to Hyperallergic about challenging the standard modes of exoticism, ethnography, and anthropology. Over the past decade, director Laura Huertas Millán has been working on unique and boundary-pushing documentary projects that subvert and deconstruct the colonized gaze.
On a remote island off the west coast of Scotland, the sun sets in a fiery blaze as embers crackle and an entire village sings "Sumer Is Icumen In," a Middle English folk song. The final moments of Robin Hardy's 1973 film, The Wicker Man, are the most iconic in all of folk horror.
