& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies March 14, 2020 “Do the Right Thing” Remains Spike Lee’s Masterpiece Black cinema (and American cinema as a whole) hasn't been the same since the release of Spike Lee's revolutionary New York drama.
T Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies March 7, 2020 The Racial and Sexual Revolution of “She’s Gotta Have It” Spike Lee's 1986 debut is a bold, if shaggy, milestone for the history of Black cinema.
F Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies January 21, 2020 From Wilted to Wistful in “Broken Flowers” Part deadpan comedy, part drama, and part neo-noir, Jim Jarmusch's 2005 indie remains one of his most textured—and one of his most approachable.
& Categories Filmmaker of the Month Movies October 12, 2019 “Raging Bull” and the Rise of Joe Pesci We look back on Martin Scorsese's 1980 boxing drama, and how Joe Pesci became one of the most pivotal players in the filmmaker's stable.
W Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies July 10, 2019 With “Pulp Fiction,” Tarantino Resisted the Mundane Quentin Tarantino's classic 1994 new-cool drama set the stage for a new era of independent film, and saw the end of his own sense of mercy.
& Categories Features Movies May 26, 2019 “The Day After Tomorrow” and Disaster Flicks as Political Polemic Fifteen years after its release, Roland Emmerich's environmental disaster film is no less corny, but its warnings about climate change ring depressingly more urgent.
A Categories Features Filmmaker of the Month Movies April 7, 2019 A Look Back at Maya Angelou’s Gripping, Lively “Down in the Delta” Maya Angelou's sole directorial effort Down in the Delta is a powerful and engaging look at a strong-willed family taking control of their destiny.
