Author: Landon Palmer

Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky/ABKCO Films Long gone is the ’70s golden age of midnight movies, psychedelic surrealism, and film industries’ deistic attitudes towards auteurs. Perhaps no filmmaker’s…

Warner Bros. William Friedkin began his directing career on television, where he helmed numerous documentaries and even an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in…

United Artists/MGM “I’m a minimalist. I see things in simple ways…It’s human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it’s not.” – Gordon Willis Cinematographer Gordon…

Sony Music The ’90s were a special time for the Hollywood movie soundtrack. From Prince’s “Batdance” for 1989’s Batman to LL Cool J’s shark dance…

A24/Walt Disney Pictures Last year, Steven Spielberg postulated that sometime within the next few years, a series of subsequent major flops will, in effect, dismantle the…

From 2014, we review Pawel Pawlikowski’s Oscar-winning film about a novice nun.

In this essay published in 2014, film scholar Landon Palmer examines the lasting business impact of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back.

American International Pictures In Alex Stapleton’s documentary Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, prolific filmmaking legend Roger Corman discusses a philosophy of entertainment that…

IFC Films One of my favorite aspects of Abbas Kiarostami’s films is how thoroughly he realizes the world within and around his characters. You hear…