Gideon Leek rewatches King Vidor’s classic, in which a young man with big dreams moves to New York City and becomes an identical cog who learns to love the machine of modernity.
The Man and The Crowd (1928) Photography, Film, and Fate
Sara Gómez: Her Contribution
“We are alone facing our historical consciousness — that makes us fully responsible, and so the reason for alienation has disappeared. Our work is creative, we live to create — to create something that will exist beyond time, beyond any possible existential anguish, like art. Is that clear?” Thoughts on the work of Cuban filmmaker Sara Gómez.
Olive Borden (on Fig Leaves)
“A month later I am dead. So, girls, if you want my advice, never play Eve, the mother of all men.”
She Packs a Punch: Unmasking a Feminist History of Luchadora Moviess
“She underscores their relevance as social, cultural, and economic barometers for a changing Mexico, countering the historical amnesia that surrounded this vibrant cinematic heritage.”
Fruits of Labor: The Beginning of The Cinema of Moral Concern
Agnieszka is battling a country that refuses to accept its past, and thus cannot learn from its repeated mistakes.
Dorothy Arzner and Jill Craigie’s Working Girls
Perhaps in another universe “Cynthia, Dorothy, and Jane are marching side-by-side somewhere, dressed chicly, placards raised, fighting for the freedom to do their work.”
K-drama Comfort in Trying Times
“Art has a way of saving lives. Whether you’re creating it as a means to expel a difficulty or inhaling it as a way to survive one, it fills in those internal spaces that reason just can’t reach.”
Noir as Societal Mirror: Julien Duvivier’s PANIQUE
“And unfortunately, in our strange and uncertain times, maybe a brutal “it can happen here” wake-up call is what we need.”
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker: critical race politics and the transnational movement of Melvin van Peebles
Rossellini’s War Trilogy
Rossellni never looks away. He never flinches. But he never misses an opportunity to celebrate what’s good in humanity either.
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