“Now here comes the big, fat close-up”: Jake Gittes on A Star Is Born (Year of the Month)
When Norman Maine, a troubled, alcoholic film star whose long career is beginning to flounder,…
The best original songs of 1954, according to the Academy
This wasn’t supposed to be the first entry. When I started tossing around the idea…
Year of the Month: Sansho the Bailiff
Any lover of art films is eventually going to have to deal with the question,…
Year of the Month: Sunil Patel on Johnny Guitar
Johnny Guitar is not your typical Western. Sure, it’s got gunslingers and horses, red rocks…
Year of the Month 1954: REAR WINDOW
We tend to think of memes as ephemeral. Keyboard Cat, 30-50 Feral Hogs, the History…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of December 1954
Year of the Month: Miller on Vera Cruz
A group of rough men rides into a small Mexican town. They stop another group…
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of November 1954
Flashback Comics Rack: Highlights of October 1954
Year of the Month: Persia on Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa taught me about texture. I’d watched plenty of black-and-white movies before and…