Get ready for goosebumps. Viola Davis is Ma Rainey—and she’s superb.
The screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1984 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, will premiere on Netflix December …
Film
Explainer videos are exceptional or awful. 1950s explainers were films and usually pretty great.
Today, corporations make short explainer videos fast and on the cheap. And, most of them look it. While popular data …
The non-linear, video chapters of an iconic business are beautifully illustrated in L’Odyssée de Cartier.
Cartier. The Maison. By taking over his master’s workshop, Louis-François Cartier founded Cartier in 1847. Since then, the iconic brand …
Meet the late Hilma af Klint. The New York Times calls her work “jaw dropping, staggering.”
Hilma af Klint was born in Stockholm in 1862. Af Klint started to create radically abstract paintings in 1906—years before Vasily …
Never before released. A must see. Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace. Prepare to be moved.
This post needs no comment from me. Variety reports: “Aretha Franklin is going on tour—or, rather, the concert movie she …
50 years ago this month, the Catonsville 9 burned draft records in a suburban Baltimore parking lot.
What led a group of nine ordinary Americans—including an artist, a nurse, and three clergymen—to seize several hundred draft records …
After the hateful shootings at the Pulse nightclub, Cassils created a *must-see* short film. 103 Shots.
One of the most important, impactful, and heart wrenching shorts that I’ve seen in decades: 103 Shots. Please watch. The film, …
Warhol, a red crayon, and a Brillo Box (3¢ off) come together in a smart, new documentary from HBO.
In 1968 Lisanne Skyler’s father purchased one of Andy Warhol’s Brillo Boxes for $1,000. 40 years later that same Brillo Box (3¢ …
Dust off your favorite old camera. Kodak is bringing back Ektachrome color reversal film. Yippee!
From Rochester, New York – January 6, 2017: To the delight of film enthusiasts across the globe, Eastman Kodak Company …
Separation? Not so much.
My long-time friend, Jack Gazelle, challenged me to Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon and Jack is pretty darn close. I met Bacon …
“Being a woman, you have to work twice as hard.”
From Variety (and with shame on us as an industry): Anna Behlmer has earned 10 Oscar nominations while working as …
From the Oldies but Goodies file
‘And Then There Were None’ is an old chestnut of a movie, but with Barry Fitzgerald and C. Aubrey Smith …
At the Hirshhorn — Damage Control.
Earlier this week Jacob and I went to D.C. for a few days to visit some museums and—more specifically—to see the …
My old friend, Sherman Hemsley—George Jefferson—has Died. My mom didn’t accept his hug.
Sherman Hemsley & Jeffersons’ co-star, Isabel Sanford Way back, in the mid-70s, I joined Norman Lear’s Tandem-TAT Productions. From my …