The best original songs of 1961, according to the Academy
Last month the Ploughman made a smart observation about the pattern of nominees in this…
Year of the Month: Jake Gittes on JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL
They called it “the greatest night in show business history”, because of course they did—it…
Year Of The Month: Miller on FIVE MINUTES TO LIVE
Johnny Cash has been everywhere, man. Of travel he’s had his share, man. But the…
Disney Byways: “Aquamania”
I think the purge of shorts from YouTube has begun. This would bother me less…
A Chronicle of CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER (Year of the Month)
In 1895 The Lumière Brothers filmed workers leaving one of their factories in the earliest…
The Year in Gimmicks: Vomas on William Castle’s 1961
The golden age of the B-movie gave us a few directors whose actual filmmaking was…
Year of the Month: Babalugats on UNDERWORLD U.S.A.
I once saw a movie like that. All about revenge. Ex-con’s revenge. Very touching. Only…
Disney Byways: THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR
Hard for me to believe I haven’t gotten to this one yet; it feels very…
Year of the Month: THE MISFITS and Hollywood Modernism
The Misfits epitomizes a certain type of Hollywood modernist aesthetic: a film about Big Ideas…
