Ivan the Terrible: A Cinematic Masterpiece
In the 1930s Paul Sethe, Nazi-appointed editor of the Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper, wrote a review of a book on Ivan the Terrible. A recent book by Berghahn claims it was…
State of Pride: A World Premiere
What is the state of the gay Pride movement in America? The film State of Pride looks at the question by taking its cameras to Gay Pride parades across America,…
Night of the Living Dead: 40th Anniv.
It’s nearly Halloween: what better time for a scary movie? George Romero’s scary flick Night of the Living Dead, which many regard as the progenitor of the zombie craze we…
Acting for the Silent Screen
“Stars cannot act. It has never been required of them.” That blunt and pithy statement was made by the great movie expert Iris Barry in a book she wrote in…
Computer Chess: The Movie
“This was a very mysterious movie – it just sort of descended from the clouds.” That is director Andrew Bujalski describing his own 2013 film Computer Chess, which was given…