Author: Landon Palmer

Twentieth Century Fox As with any Ken Burns documentary, PBS’s The Roosevelts (having finished its second of seven two-hour episodes last night) features a trove of…

Les Films Imperia The legacy of the French New Wave looms large over modern film history, yet its legacy is decidedly messy, one that refuses to…

Marvel Studios In March, Evan Kindley asked a compelling question about musicians and their like-minded descendants: “Why is it that the kids of cult folk…

Take this advice from the writer and director of ‘Stranger Than Paradise,’ ‘Dead Man,’ and ‘Only Lovers Left Alive.’

Columbia Pictures Yesterday, Scott Beggs discussed how the subject of war permeated throughout Richard Attenborough’s career both in front of and behind the camera, noting…

IFC Films For the past four years, I’ve been in a long distance relationship. As of two weeks ago, the distance component of that relationship…

Paramount Pictures The 1980s proved a difficult time for many notable American directors of the 1960s and 70s. Sure, filmmakers like Altman and Coppola came…

Warner Bros. 1942’s Casablanca has repeatedly been canonized as the best film Hollywood ever made. Its iconic dialogue produced a bevy of quotable lines that…

Shirley Clarke Productions Shirley Clarke grew up wealthy, the daughter of a manufacturing magnate and a family fortune. She had an extensive education between four…