In his 1986 book Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, film theorist Robin Wood explored, in a chapter entitled “The Incoherent Text: Narrative in the ’70s,” just how and why so many seminal films of that ...

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Lone Star discovery Gabriel Casseus is an innocent abroad in William Jennings’ Harlem Aria, an adventurous coming-of-age tale that takes its opera-obsessed hero from a Harlem laundry to a solo singing ...

On the day that Bob died i was sitting in my office in Burlington, Vermont, when — at the exact same time — a co-worker paged me, a friend e-mailed me and a staff member from Bob’s office called. It ...

Our annual chart once again lists all the American independent features appearing at last year's Sundance Film Festival that have gone on to significant domestic theatrical release in 1996. As always, ...

Dempsey Rice was 18 when her mother killed herself. That suicide, in 1987, followed two years of odd behavior that might have tipped the mother’s mystified family to her self-destructive impulses had ...