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Joe Buck and Rizzo walking on a bridge.

How John Schlesinger’s Homeless and Lonesome ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rode His Way to the Top

It became the first and only X-rated movie to win a best picture Oscar.

by Koraljka Suton via Cinephilia & Beyond on August 4, 2019

Death Proof

With ‘Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,’ Tarantino slakes his thirst for nostalgia while playing with another piece of history.

by Soraya Roberts via Longreads on August 1, 2019

An Eight-Second Film of 1915 New Orleans and the Mystery of Louis Armstrong’s Happiness

How could Armstrong, born indisputably black at the height of Jim Crow and raised poor, be so happy?

by Gwen Thompkins via The New Yorker on July 8, 2019

Gump Talk

25 years later, what does Gump mean?

via Contingent on July 1, 2019

Moving Pictures

Tracing the history of Americans' relationships with the silver screen, from film's earliest days to the cinematic creations of our own times.

Ronald Reagan’s Reel Life

Did the movies ever matter? They did to Ronald Reagan.

by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on June 29, 2019

“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

Public Enemy's "Fight the Power," featured in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," embodied many sentiments of a black generation.

by Mark Anthony Neal via Black Perspectives on June 24, 2019

Image of Sergeant Pete Thibodeau during the War on Terror.

The Sum of All Beards

How did facial hair win American men’s hearts and minds? Thank the War on Terror.

by Adam Weinstein, Adrian Bonenberger via The New Republic on June 4, 2019

How the ‘Central Park Five’ Changed the History of American Law

Ava DuVernay’s miniseries shows why more children had to stand trial as adults than at any other time before this 1989 case.

by Elizabeth Hinton via The Atlantic on June 2, 2019

How Spaghetti Westerns Shaped Modern Cinema

In the realism, the set pieces, the operatic music, Sergio Leone was pointing the way towards modern filmmaking.

by Quentin Tarantino via The Spectator on June 1, 2019

Film poster for "Native Son."

"Native Son" and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright

Novelist Richard Wright yearned to break into film, but Hollywood's censorship of black stories left his aspirations unfulfilled.

by Anna Shechtman via The New Yorker on April 4, 2019

'Reality Bites' Captured Gen X With Perfect Irony

The 1994 studio film was written by a 20-something who mined her own life to tell the story of a generation that disdained 'selling out.'

by Soraya Roberts via The Atlantic on March 6, 2019

How 'Green Book' And The Hollywood Machine Swallowed Donald Shirley Whole

Why relatives of the musician depicted in "Green Book" called the film “a symphony of lies.”

by Brooke Obie via Shadow and Act on December 14, 2018

A Skyline Is Born

A history of filmmakers retelling the story of New York’s architecture.

by Tatum Dooley via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 14, 2018

Making a New World: Armistice Soundwave

A team of sound artists reconstructs what the end of the First World War might have sounded like.

via Coda to Coda on November 6, 2018

Mayberry Machiavelli

The self-congratulatory legacies of ‘A Face in the Crowd.’

by Tom Carson via The Baffler on November 5, 2018

How Horror Changed After WWI

The war created a new world, an alternate reality distinct from what most people before 1914 expected their lives to be.

by W. Scott Poole via Literary Hub on October 31, 2018

Brett Kavanaugh Goes to the Movies

A film scholar reflects on the image of masculinity depicted in "Grease 2," released the same summer of Kavanaugh's alleged assault.

by Marsha Gordon via The Conversation on October 2, 2018

The Rape Culture of the 1980s, Explained by Sixteen Candles

The beloved romantic comedy’s date rape scene provides important context for the Brett Kavanaugh accusations.

by Constance Grady via Vox on September 27, 2018

What Makes ‘The Living Dead’ My Film of 1968

In so many ways, George Romero's lo-budget horror film defined the year 1968.

by J. Hoberman via New York Review of Books on September 4, 2018

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The Trouble With Uplift

A curiously inflexible brand of race-first neoliberalism has taken root in American political discourse.

by Adolph Reed Jr. via The Baffler on September 4, 2018

A mother pushes a child, on a swing at the Cabrini-Green public housing project in Chicago, May 28, 1981.

The 1992 Horror Film That Made a Monster Out of a Chicago Housing Project

In Candyman, the notorious Cabrini-Green complex is haunted by urban myths and racial paranoia.

by Ben Austen via Zócalo Public Square on August 17, 2018

The Lost World of Weegee

Depression-era Americans viewed urban life in America through the lens of Weegee’s camera.

by Terry Teachout via Commentary on August 1, 2018

FBI piracy warning

How 1960s Film Pirates Sold Movies Before the FBI Came Knocking

The FBI storms a suspect's property, guns drawn. The crime? Film piracy.

by Matt Novak via Paleofuture on May 29, 2018

How Superheroes Made Movie Stars Expendable

The Hollywood overhauls that got us from Bogart to Batman.

by Stephen Metcalf via The New Yorker on May 28, 2018

A Tale of Two Hiroshimas

Two of the earliest films to depict the bombing of Hiroshima show how politics shapes national mourning.

by Kazu Watanabe via The Current on May 3, 2018

The First Film Ever Streamed on the Internet is Kind of Crazy

Beekeeping, alien planets, and the limits of narrative as technology.

by Joshua Wheeler via Literary Hub on April 30, 2018

Serial Killers: A New Breed of Celebrity

Pop culture's surreal embrace of the serial killer.

by Julia Ingalls via CrimeReads on April 24, 2018

Immaculately Restored Film Lets You Revisit Life in New York City in 1911

Other than one or two of the world's supercentenarians, nobody remembers New York in 1911.

by Colin Marshall via Open Culture on April 20, 2018

Still of Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez from The Breakfast Club.

What About “The Breakfast Club”?

Revisiting the movies of my youth in the age of #MeToo.

by Molly Ringwald via The New Yorker on April 6, 2018

An Investigation Into the History of the 'Ditz' Voice

How pitch, tonality, and celebrity imitation have portrayed cluelessness.

by Jody Amable via Atlas Obscura on March 1, 2018

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