Thursday, June 19, 2025

Op-eds

Eight Can’t-Miss Titles From The 2025 Tribeca Festival Lineup

Six months have passed since this year’s iteration of Sundance kicked off the 2025 festival calendar, and though Cannes is only a few weeks behind cinephiles (and souls aplenty have still yet...

Clint Eastwood at 95: An American Century in Film

Clint Eastwood turns 95 this week. An almost unfathomable milestone for a career that feels as elemental as the Hollywood sign itself, and as raw and unforgiving as a high-noon standoff. To...

Jafar Panahi: The Director Who Refuses To Be Silenced

With the Palme d’Or win for his latest movie, It Was Just An Accident, Iranian director Jafar Panahi joins an elite class of directors who’ve won the big three festival prizes at...

Pam Grier – The Foxtrot of the Film World

I still remember the first time I saw Pam Grier in a movie. It was my early cinephilia days, I was on a Quentin Tarantino marathon, a.k.a. keeping up with releases before "Inglorious...

‘Kill Bill:’ A Tale of Two Films – From Revenge Rampage to Regretful Reckoning

She emerges from a coma with a single, burning purpose etched onto her soul: revenge, or as she says, “Kill Bill.”. Beatrix Kiddo, "The Bride," codename Black Mamba (Uma Thurman), cuts a...

Why This Shot in ‘Aftersun’ is a Masterpiece

When I made a comment about Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun on Twitter (I’m sorry, I will always call it that), I never dreamt that I would be here writing an actual essay on it. But...

Gene Hackman: In Memoriam

For the 40 years prior to his retirement in 2004, Gene Hackman was a force of nature on film. No other actor, before or since, has had the ability to both be...

Op-Ed: A Letter to ‘Brazil,’ On Its 40th Anniversary

To whom it may concern, Brazil is turning 40 this year! Can you believe it? It seemed it only came out yesterday - kooky kid. Brazil, where hearts were entertaining June We stood beneath an...

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