Author: Landon Palmer

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Ceaselessly creative and driven yet relentlessly insecure to the point of self-loathing, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was both an exceptionally high-functioning and often…

Columbia Pictures This article is best read with its companion piece “Hollywood Has Never Been Original.” A few weeks ago, The New York Times published…

The filmmaker was only nominated, once, for writing ‘Rebel Without a Cause.’

Columbia Pictures On March 10, 1938, upon receiving the Academy Award for Best Director for his hit 1937 screwball comedy The Awful Truth, filmmaker Leo…

The opening sequence of Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now is a masterclass in film editing. Effortlessly maneuvering between siblings playing outside a rural English estate…

Universal Pictures Fifty Shades of Grey looks to be the biggest movie Hollywood has made about BDSM since Rosie O’Donnell and Dan Aykroyd leathered-up for…

Sony Pictures Classics Mike Leigh is one of few filmmakers who could say something like, “Given the choice of Hollywood and poking steel pins in my…

Open Road Films Mobile media devices have grown so ubiquitous as to become banal. We treat the everyday documentation of events rendered capable by cameras in…

Gravitas Ventures In 1973, the production company Kelly-Jordan Enterprises sought to fund a group of relatively inexpensive features, one being a blaxploitation vampire film in…