Sony and Alamo Drafthouse to reopen Cinerama Dome
Cinerama Dome made its debut on Sunset Boulevard in 1963. Until it closed its curtains in 2021 and its screens went black during COVID-19, the…
Arthouse Houston, Wes Anderson, and others rally to restore Garden Oaks Theater
When Garden Oaks theater in Houston opened in 1947, it had all the post-war fixings of a movie theater from its time: a tall blade…
Film Disputes Authorship of Iconic “Napalm Girl” Photo
It is a photograph etched into the visual canon of the first “television war”: a group of children flee a napalm attack near the town…
A Short Documentary Celebrates the Fruits of Nearly Five Decades of ‘Extreme Beachcombing’
For nearly five decades, Forks, Washington, resident John Anderson has pursued an enthusiasm—one might even call it an obsession—with things that wash up along the…
How ‘A Complete Unknown’ Brings Bob Dylan’s 1960s New York Back to Life
“Greenwich Village is such a central character and integral to everything happening at the time,” Audouy says. Photo: Macall Polay The Ritz Theater in Jersey…
Cuban documentary about government censorship of the arts wins top film festival prize
The aptly titled Cuban film Chronicles of the Absurd won a top prize in November at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s…
Beetlejuice and beyond: the origins of Tim Burton’s world of gothic romance and its enduring influence
“I have taken a lot of solace in my characters,” the film-maker Tim Burton writes in Designing Worlds: “the feeling of everything being quite odd…
