Thursday, September 22 2011
Today’s Seriously Sagging Britches Have a Precedent in the Society Challenging ‘Zoot Suit’
Kathy Peiss takes us back to a time whe “clothes make the man” led some to adopt a wild sartorial departure from the mainstream, and others to beat them viciously for it.
Tuesday, September 13 2011
Transforming the Metamorphosis
While Atanes's film comes across as somber and unintentionally funny, and the Capaldi film is bizarre and outright amusing. Both do a brilliant job of capturing the surreal, dark mood that The Metamorphosis is cocooned in.
Monday, August 22 2011
‘A Divided World’ Suffers from Too Much Company
A fortress of text with not a soul in sight, dense as granite and intense as drying cement.
Wednesday, October 13 2010
‘The Haunting Cinema of Frantisek Vlasil’: a Political Allegory and a Sensitive Study of Childhood
Are you familiar with the films of Frantisek Vlacil? If you care about cinema as an art form, you should be.
Monday, May 24 2010
This Soviet-era Polish Film About WWII Turns Gritty Combat Scenes Into a Tragic Epic
As Red Rowan conveys, the Eastern Front saw more WWII casualties than either the Western Front or the Pacific. It also involved millions of citizens from countries that found themselves caught between the Soviets and the Third Reich.
Wednesday, February 17 2010
The Ultimate Dambusters Collection
A couple of unique perspectives highlight this otherwise ho-hum set of World War II documentaries.
Tuesday, February 9 2010
Inglourious Basterds
The bad news is that the Weinsteins may have been right about trimming some of the fat; the good news is that even a flawed Tarantino is better than a perfect most anyone else.
Wednesday, January 13 2010
‘City of Thieves’ author sends men on unlikely quest during the German siege on Leningrad
Tuesday, May 5 2009
Independent Lens: Wings of Defeat
Wings of Defeat shows that, then and now, the kamikaze pilots were complicated and diverse individuals, not stereotypical fanatics.
