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Winona Ryder as Veronica in The Heathers.

“Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy

The 1989 cult classic ushered in a darker, weirder, more experimental era for teen movies.
by Naomi Fry via The New Yorker on March 27, 2019

All 89 Best Picture Oscar Winners Ranked

From the meh (A Beautiful Mind) to the stunningly beautiful (Moonlight), and the classic (All About Eve) to the god-awful (Birdman).
by Kate Aurthur via BuzzFeed News on February 6, 2019

How Does a Film Become Lost?

What happens when “lost” films and television shows become found once again—and what that does to the work’s cultural legacy.
by Andrew Egan via Tedium on October 11, 2018

In the Trump Era, America Desperately Needs a Great Movie About Nuclear Apocalypse

If we want to avoid nuclear war, we'd better start imagining it again.
by Jon Schwarz via The Intercept on July 1, 2018
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Moving Pictures

Tracing the history of Americans' relationships with the silver screen, from film's earliest days to the cinematic creations of our own times.
Charlie Chaplin and other actors in a silent film.

Curing (Silent) Movies of Deafness?

In many ways, silent film was an art form entirely different from the "talkies" we enjoy today.
by Russell L. Johnson via OUPblog on July 31, 2017
A scene from Birth of a Nation.

Births of a Nation

Cedric Robinson has a great deal to teach us about Trumpism and the significance of resistance in determining the future.
by Robin D. G. Kelley via Boston Review on March 6, 2017
Orson Welles

A Hundred Years of Orson Welles

He was said to have gone into decline, but his story is one of endurance—even of unlikely triumph.
by Alex Ross via The New Yorker on November 30, 2015

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’s First Starring Film Role

The Library of Congress has the only complete version of the original 1948 release.
by Mike Mashon via Now See Hear! on December 16, 2014
Two bikers ride through the desert in Easy Rider, a 1969 film.

See America First

Two movies, 'Easy Rider' and 'Alice's Restaurant,' reveal the ideals of counterculture and act as vehicles for social commentary.
by Ellen Willis via New York Review of Books on January 2, 1970
Brian Keith as Theodore Roosevelt putting his hand on a globe in a 1975 film.

The American Grizzly

What "The Wind and the Lion" can teach us about our new era of rough-riding foreign policy.
by Richard Jordan via Law & Liberty on January 23, 2026
Shakers dancing during worship.

Once Seen as a Threat to Society, Shakers Are Now Part of the Sound of America

A new film depicts part of the long history of Shaker worship.
by Christian Goodwillie via The Conversation on December 22, 2025
Screenshot of a family hug from 'It's a Wonderful Life'

When 'It's a Wonderful Life' Came Under FBI Scrutiny

During the Red Scare, a 1947 FBI report alleged the beloved holiday film contained subtly subversive anti-American propaganda.
by Christopher Klein via HISTORY on December 11, 2025
A teacher points to an ovary on a diagram of reproductive organs projected in a classroom.

“Filmitis”

When movie fandom became a medical condition.
by Diana W. Anselmo via Nursing Clio on November 19, 2025
Lobby card for Freaks (1932)
partner

Tod Browning’s 'Freaks'

'Freaks' asked audiences to think about the exploitative display of human difference while also demonstrating that the sideshow was a locus of community.
by Betsy Golden Kellem via JSTOR Daily on October 29, 2025
Bruce Springsteen

What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Springsteen

The new Boss biopic robs his music of its mythic American qualities.
by Mark Asch via The Atlantic on October 24, 2025
A cassette copy of the film soundtrack for "Until the End of the World."

The Last Time I Rewound

VHS, Star Wars, and the freedom to remember.
by Nic Hoffmann via Tropics of Meta on September 30, 2025
Screen capture of Robert Redford in the film "Sneakers"

Robert Redford, Environmentalism, and the Most Prescient Movie Ever Made

Redford’s legacy as an environmental activist and his 1992 film "Sneakers" reveal his foresight on climate, politics, and surveillance.
by Dave Levitan via Gravity Is Gone on September 16, 2025
Clint Eastwood.

The Enigma of Clint Eastwood

Is he merely a reactionary, or do his films paint a more complicated picture?
by Adam Nayman via The Nation on September 4, 2025
Dorothy Parker at work writing

Pretty Garrotte: Why We Need Dorothy Parker

While she always insisted that she wasn’t a ‘real’ critic, Dorothy Parker is more astute than most on matters of style.
by Kasia Boddy via London Review of Books on September 3, 2025
Billy Wilder walking down a street, holding a cigarette.

Billy Wilder’s Battle With the Past

How the fabled Hollywood director confronted survivor’s guilt, the legacies of the Holocaust, and the paradoxes of Zionism.
by Ben Schwartz via The Nation on August 18, 2025
Chaos outside the Washington Hilton Hotel after the assassination attempt on President Reagan.

American Idols

Death in the magnetic age.
by Sam Kriss via The Point on August 11, 2025
Actor on stage on the cover of J. Hoberman's book "Everything Is Now."

Delicate and Dirty

Revisit the transformative moment in American culture through the lens of a new book about the 1960s New York avant-garde.
by Ben Arthur via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 7, 2025
Still frame from a slow motion sequence in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde shows actress grimacing inside a vehicle.

How Slow Motion Became Cinema’s Dominant Special Effect

The turbulent late sixties saw the technique’s popularity explode—and it’s been helping moviemakers engage with the unsettling tempos of modern life ever since.
by Scott W. Stern via The New Republic on June 27, 2025
Collage of gay film covers

Good Queers and Bad Queers

Myths are fed back as stereotypes and strawmen to divine some boundary for acceptability.
by KJ Shepherd via Contingent on June 27, 2025
Irving Thalberg and his wife, with Louis Mayer.

The Wizard Behind Hollywood’s Golden Age

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale.
by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on June 9, 2025
A line of Marines firing from behind a barricade.

Neither Marine nor Maggot

"Full Metal Jacket" and the crisis of masculinity.
by Christopher Deutsch via Nursing Clio on June 4, 2025
Charles Horman

Chile in Their Hearts, and Ours

The untold story behind the killings of two Americans by the Chilean military after the coup.
by Peter Kornbluh via NACLA on May 23, 2025
Henry Fonda in The Best Man (1984).

President of the Nameless: Alexander Horwath on Henry Fonda for President

A documentary dissects Henry Fonda's character and his role in American cinema.
by A. S. Hamrah, Alexander Horwath via Screen Slate on April 7, 2025
Shots from various conspiracy films of the 20th century.

The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema

Why did Hollywood lose interest in making paranoid thrillers? Was it a change in the culture? Or a change in the marketplace?
by T. M. Brown via The Nation on March 31, 2025
The title card of George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead.

George Romero’s Pittsburgh

City of the living dead.
by Victoria Timpanaro via The Metropole on February 20, 2025
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