Features
Thursday, June 28 2012
Essential Film Performances - 2012 Edition Part Nine
PopMatters follows up our hugely popular 100 Essential Female and Male Performances feature and 2010 update with 50 additions to the essentials list. Part nine features Frank Sinatra, Rosalind Russell and more...
Friday, June 22 2012
Essential Film Performances - 2012 Edition Part Five
PopMatters follows up our hugely popular 100 Essential Female and Male Performances feature and 2010 update with 50 additions to the essentials list. Part five features Charles Laughton, Madeline Kahn and more...
Thursday, June 21 2012
Essential Film Performances - 2012 Edition Part Four
PopMatters follows up our hugely popular 100 Essential Female and Male Performances feature and 2010 update with 50 additions to the essentials list. Part four features Michael Fassbender, Jane Fonda and more...
Monday, August 8 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 3: George Cukor - John Ford
Spiritual possession, screwball comedy, German kinks, and the quintessential American Western genre are among the disparate characters we shine a light on today as PopMatters counts down the 100 Essential Film Directors. Today we look at George Cukor through John Ford. Who falls in the middle might surprise you...
Tuesday, April 14 2009
All the Faith in the World: Holiday
Holiday is the sort of movie that gives those who do know it the satisfyingly superior glow of being in on something really good.
Columns
Tuesday, April 16 2013
Do Women Have Sex? 'The Chapman Report'
Everyone knows it's impossible for any woman to enjoy guilt-free sex with jazz musicians and delivery boys.
Reviews
Monday, February 6 2012
'My Fair Lady': Let's Revisit This Loverly Classic in HD
This musical gets criticized because of its outdated sense of romance, when in reality it's a subversive feminist piece.
Thursday, June 28 2007
Essential Classics - Romances
This set highlights the existential crisis about the validity and permanence of love, in a time when Americans were reminded of the absolute ephemeral nature of life and stripped of ideals by the War.
Friday, March 23 2007
Holiday (1938)
Boasting a script packed full of acerbic gems, Holiday also has a tremendous visual energy.
Monday, December 1 2003
The Marrying Kind (1952)
Hollywood did not allow Holliday to display the full range of her talent and intelligence; most of her roles were variants of the 'dumb blonde'.
Blogs
Tuesday, August 30 2011
100 Essential Directors - George Cukor
100 Essential Directors celebrates directors of distinct vision, who have honed their respective crafts, who have brought something new and exciting to the medium, and who continue to push the boundaries of the form.
