Author: Landon Palmer

In honor of The Criterion Collection’s special edition Blu-ray of ‘Limelight,’ we look back at the 1952 film and how its initial release coincided with Chaplin’s banishment from America.

Beginning in the early 1960s, the most inventive westerns – a film genre that is, in its classical form, quintessentially “American” for its reproduced myths…

Brad Bird cares about character development. He sets and specifies narrative stakes. He’s dedicated to meticulous world-building. He is amongst a steadily diminishing class of…

Janus Even though Orson Welles’ career is one of the most consequential and legendary within film history, referring to him as a “director” or even…

Fox Searchlight With The Celebration, the first official film of the radical yet tongue-in-cheek Dogme 95 film movement, Thomas Vinterberg helmed one of the most…

On Sunday, a presidential hopeful attended a routine campaign event and fundraiser. The event was overshadowed, however, by an emerging scandal over one of her…

Any summary of Richard Lester’s career inevitably begins with his helming of A Hard Day’s Night. This is no dubious honor ‐ what was meant…

https://medium.com/media/695fde68252deb9c06d0d7feb768873d/href In the BBC documentary Don’t Be Denied, Neil Young says the following about his move away from counterculture-era rock ’n’ roll and towards more…

After becoming the first American woman to win a César (the French equivalent to an Oscar) for her supporting role in Olivier Assayas’s stunning new…