Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader More Paluzzi Please: ‘A Black Veil for Lisa’ Fears Its Greatest Asset By Michael Barrett / 19 May 2016 How to veil a goddess and dampen the picture.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Shaggy Dog-Days Tales in ‘Arabian Nights’ By Michael Barrett / 12 May 2016 Arabian Nights is Miguel Gomes' portrait of contemporary Portugal, refracted through escapist fantasy.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader ‘The Whip Hand’ Runs Free With the Other Tied Behind Its Back By Michael Barrett / 26 April 2016 From Nazis to the Cold War in one painful lesson.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Sam Fuller Gives Us the Bird in ‘Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street’ By Michael Barrett / 13 April 2016 A restoration of one of Fuller's obscurer free-for-alls, it's an odd bird.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Surveying the World As It Twists and Turns: Ten Classics From the Criterion Collection By Michael Barrett / 28 March 2016 Keeping your head above the flood of Blu-rays is easier when buoyed by Gilda and Mrs. Robinson.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader ‘Cry of the Hunted’ Is a Little Movie With a Lot Going On By Michael Barrett / 22 March 2016 Cry of the Hunted is an intriguing B film with homoerotic subtext galore.
Film/Film Feature/Lists Cultural Critique, Silent Film Style By Michael Barrett / 16 March 2016 These five silent films reveal details about life in America, Germany and France between one colossal war and another.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Three Formal Masterworks: ‘Taxi’, ‘The Forbidden Room’ and ‘Victoria’ By Michael Barrett / 15 March 2016 These three films define the possibilities of cinematic form in the 21st century.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader When Jane Met Agnès: Two Films by Agnès Varda By Michael Barrett / 14 March 2016 Two personal and sympathetic explorations of sex, art, and acting: now with restored colour!
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/PopMatters Picks/Short Ends and Leader ‘Deep in My Heart’ Is An Overlooked Musical Delight By Michael Barrett / 4 March 2016 The captivating life of an operettist, as told via Al Jolson, Gene Kelly, and a "Leg of Mutton".
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader ‘Phantom of Paris’ and ‘Gentleman’s Fate’ Tie Up John Gilbert’s Career By Michael Barrett / 1 March 2016 Disguises, dual identities, and reversals of fortune haunt John Gilbert, matinee idol.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader These Two by Norman Taurog Are Not Quite Auteur-Tested By Michael Barrett / 23 February 2016 Norman Taurog's latest two blasts from the past are unearthed; but should they have stayed buried?