PBS has the documentary When Giants Walked Here. “Raleigh’s Dorton Arena is famed the world over for its groundbreaking architecture. Its greatest untold legacy, however, is its place in the history of a Southern mainstay: pro wrestling. This documentary chronicles the rise and fall of pro wrestling at […]
I’ve had a cruddy day, so please indulge me in a visit to my favorite micro-genre of mainstream Indian cinema: people looking for things in Calcutta.I love a mystery. I love characters on a quest for knowledge that is ultimately used for resolution or even justice. I am […]
It’s not meteorological summer here in the Northern Hemisphere yet, but it’s June. It’s hot and my a/c is on. I have been sticky with sweat and sunscreen. I have had my first Arnold Palmer of the season.(And my first Dinah Shore—lemonade with seltzer). It is summer as […]
At Every Frame A Painting, Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos “analyze how–with a small crew banded together under the production company Image Ten–George Romero used a tight $100,000 budget to create the radical cinematic style of Night of the Living Dead (1968), one of the most haunting and […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, friend of the Gutter Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch Dil Apna Aur Preet! “A doctor and a nurse having a romantic moment at the hospital, drinking coffee in the moonlight…this romantic drama from 1960 ticks a lot of boxes (and […]
Every Frame A Painting is back as Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos look at Ozu in color for TCM! “The cinema of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu is explored in this new exclusive TCM Original. The creators Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos are the duo behind the celebrated YouTube […]
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