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Tough Guys Don’t Dance

August 22, 2026

Jean-Luc Godard wanted Norman Mailer to write and star in a modern adaptation of King Lear, with Mailer playing a mob boss called Don Learo.…

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

August 19, 2026

The book was banned by the occupying Soviet regime. When offered the film adaptation, Miloš Forman refused, fearing for his sons in Czechoslovakia. Instead, he…

Wet Hot American Summer

August 18, 2026

The actors were dressed in shorts and t-shirts and It rained almost every day of the shoot. When a scene needed sunshine, the crew held…

The Addiction

August 17, 2026

The Guardian’s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw named it one of the greatest films of all time. Tokyo Story. Paths of Glory. Raging Bull. Andrei…

A Midnight Clear

August 16, 2026

A whole generation of American film, packed into one small 1992 movie not enough people saw. The director was Keith Gordon, who played the bullied…

A Nightmare on Elm Street

August 13, 2026

In the late 1970s, healthy young men began dying in their sleep. Mostly Hmong refugees, they would go to bed and just not wake up,…

Carnival of Souls

August 12, 2026

He made workplace-safety reels, driver’s-ed shorts, educational filmstrips. He drove past a rotting lakeside pavilion and could not stop picturing dead figures dancing inside it.…

Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven

August 11, 2026

In the notorious 1995 flop Showgirls, there was a background stripper named Penny Slot. Most people forgot about her the moment the credits rolled. Rena…

Sisters

August 10, 2026

He was haunted by a story in Life magazine about a pair of conjoined twins. In the photo the two girls sat side by side,…

I Origins

August 9, 2026

This was never meant to be the film. It was supposed to be the backstory. After Fox Searchlight acquired Another Earth, co-writer Mike Cahill sold…

Heathers

August 8, 2026

It was his first screenplay and he had exactly one director in mind. Only Stanley Kubrick could pull off a three-hour black comedy about a…

Dark Days

August 7, 2026

They built a village beneath the streets of Manhattan. Shacks of scavenged wood, wired for electricity tapped off the city grid, furnished with salvaged couches…