Lost Classic: Peppermint Candy (Lee Chang-dong, 2000)
At the end of the 19th Century, the Lumiere brothers’ short film Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1895)…
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Four Frames: Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)
Until the late nineteen-seventies, Woody Allen had only produced farces and slapstick comedies. It was with the release of Annie Hall (1977), a…
Screengems: The harmonium in Punch Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
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Thousand Words: Deconstructing The Manic Pixie Dream Girl
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Four Frames: Literal and symbolic barriers in Proof of Life (Taylor Hackford, 2000)
Upon its release, Proof of Life (2000) was marketed and received as a vague update of the untouchable and inimitable…
Screengems: C.C. Baxter’s bowler hat from The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
From the moment Jack Lemmon’s C.C. Baxter dons his new bowler hat in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment the film changes…
Lost Classic: Jeremy (Arthur Barron, 1973)
If you look along the shelf of ‘American performing arts student coming-of-age movie’ high school yearbooks, back through time beyond…
Screen Gem: Homer’s Hooks (The Best Years of Our Lives, 1946)
William Wyler’s The Best Years of Our Lives concerns the fraught homecoming of three servicemen at the end of WWII,…
