By @historycoolkids Considering how poorly Asian men are portrayed in Hollywood, I was genuinely surprised to learn about Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became one of the biggest stars during the […]
Hollywood’s first sex symbol was Asian
WATCH: Dennis Hopper in Witch Hunt
WITCH HUNT, 1994. Thought it was lost to time, but here it is on YouTube. How did this movie get on my c.v.? Not sure. I was shifting gears and ended up […]
Trailer: Rip It Up and Start Again
A ‘proof-of-concept’ trailer for a four-part series covering the post-punk scenes of the years 1978-82, using Simon Reynolds’ book ‘Rip It Up + Start Again’ as a roadmap. This version is a […]
The 10 best movies of all time
By Paul Schrader SECOND THOUGHTS. I think the time has come to let Citizen Kane go. It is, after all, the granddaddy of all time best film lists. But I’m replacing it […]
Robert Altman listens to Duke Ellington
Remembering Oscar-nominated “Nashville” director Robert Altman, who died of a heart attack on November 20, 2006, aged 81. “I grew up in Kansas City. The housekeeper that kind of raised me was […]
Fire Music: The Story of Free Jazz
Although the free jazz movement of the 1960s and ‘70s was much maligned in some jazz circles, its pioneers – brilliant talents like Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, and […]
ECHO: The Music of Harold Budd and Brian Eno
A documentary revisiting the seminal works ‘The Plateaux of Mirror’ (1980) and ‘The Pearl’ (1984), by artists Harold Budd and Brian Eno. Rare interviews and anecdotes from the artists accompany a fan-crafted […]
The Weather Underground
When the Beatles land in America in the early 1960s, young men wearing their hair long strike the nation as an abomination. But within a few years, youthful rebellion grows more severe: […]
Oscars sets new diversity rules for movies to qualify for ‘Best Picture’
From 2024, for a movie to be nominated for an Oscar as ‘Best Picture’, it must meet a new set of diversity standards both on camera and behind the scenes. The move […]
JAPAN CUTS 2020
JULY 17–30, 2020 North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema returns for its unprecedented 14th edition as an entirely virtual experience. Featuring a diverse slate of 30 feature films and 12 […]
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