Author: Landon Palmer

First Run Features As cable news has been wallowing in shortsightedness and ahistorical thinking in its coverage of the Ferguson grand jury verdict and ensuing protests,…

Les Films Imperia Jean-Luc Godard’s career has been devoted to both honoring and destroying cinema, to taking it apart and refitting it anew, and to making…

WBEZ Chicago It’s happened. A podcast has achieved the status of a cultural phenomenon. Where podcasting has largely either operated as a supplementary commentary on…

Warner Bros./Newmarket Films/Art by FSR Time is a precious resource in Christopher Nolan’s most personal (i.e., non-bat-related) films, and time rarely ever runs in a linear,…

Warner Bros. Ken Russell had very little patience for the idea that one should honor tradition, and that is a major factor that mobilized his…

Amplify Numerous filmmakers have made their influences into mentors. Paul Thomas Anderson’s ’90s films were deeply indebted to the work of Robert Altman, with whom…

Warner Bros. Lynchian. Kubrickian. Felliniesque. A directorial adjective can have strong, transportable power, even if its exact meaning may rely more on general impressions and…

New World Pictures In 1986, Stephen King staged a challenge to the many respected directors who had envisioned his famous books as films: he posited that…

Compass International Pictures Where would horror cinema be without gothic fiction? The careers of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, James Whale, Roger Corman and many a German…