Year of the Month: Anthony Pizzo on The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
The 1940s were a rough time for Walt Disney Pictures, with two underperforming feature films (Pinocchio…
Year of the Month: Miller on Battleground
“The best evidence we have of what World War II was like comes from about…
Hell hath no fury: THE QUEEN OF SPADES (Year of the Month)
(NOTE: “The Queen of Spades” is nearly two hundred years old, but if you don’t…
YEAR OF THE MONTH: Jake Gittes on Stray Dog
In sweltering Tokyo heat, a green, young cop named Murakami (Toshiro Mifune) is tracking down…
Year of the Month: The Cultural Work of ALL THE KING’S MEN
I’m very interested in the cultural work films do, that is, how the conditions of…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of December 1949
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YEAR OF THE MONTH: Joseph Finn on A Letter to Three Wives
I think casting is a delicate art, in many ways. You need to find the…