In the spring of 2002, I went on a school trip from Honduras to Nicaragua. My classmates and I, all middle class 16- and 17-year-olds, spent a decadent weekend ...
After Monty Python and the Holy Grail eviscerated the self-seriousness of the Arthurian epic but before Shrek added pop songs and fart jokes galore, Rob Reiner and William Goldman’s The Princess Bride was pop culture’s definitive postmodern comic fairytale....
We explore how The Ice Storm, Lady Bird, Mistress America, Home for the Holidays, Hannah and Her Sisters, and more films subvert the common idealized imagery of the holiday....
Less than half a year after Claude Lanzmann’s passing this past summer, the Quad Cinema in Manhattan has this week premiered the late documentarian’s Shoah: Four Sisters, a compilation of four short features described as “satellites” of his 1985 Holocaust magnum opus....
