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One year after making the leap from the malevolent miniature threats of DOLLS and PUPPET MASTER into miniature heroes (albeit reluctant ones) in DOLLMAN, Charles Band took one step backwards and just a jump to the left with DEMONIC TOYS in 1992.

From the internet-coded worlds of We’re All Going to the World’s Fair and I Saw the TV Glow to the sex and blood of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun has emerged as one of American cinema’s most distinctive voices. In the cover feature of our October 2026 issue, they talk genre, desire and the strange territory where reality can be remade.

As chosen by Jane Campion, Greta Gerwig, Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Agnès Varda, Tilda Swinton, and more Read each list entry in full here In 1968 Ida Lupino was the sole female director to merit an entry in Andrew Sarris’s auteur bible The American Cinema: Directors and Directions 1929-1968.

Martin Scorsese's personal film class. In fact, I think I initially saw the first episode of this in my high school film class. This is the kind of documentary you should watch with one tab open to Letterboxd so you can add films the that are mentioned to your own watchlist. What struck me today, however, was the mythology involved in this project and how effective it's been.

This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. Ridley Scott's debut feature film is a fantastic tale of obsession between two dueling soldiers during Napoleonic France. The newcomer Scott set out to make his own Barry Lyndon, but just after this film's Cannes premiere Scott saw Star Wars, and came away convinced that he needed to follow Lucas' faster direction. Despite Scott's later comments, 'The Duellists' is exceptionally directed, with each duel uniquely exciting.

What a strange film: Compelling subject matter bowdlerized by Jerry Bruckheimer, yet beautifully crafted by Ridley Scott. It's got one foot in the 1990s action genre and another in the 2000s war genre. By accident of fate, it was the first war film released after 9/11, and thus became an ominous warning of the future. The script is poor, as the movie only intermittently is concerned with the motivations of the Somalis.

When visual effects wizard Ray Harryhausen and producer Charles H. Schneer unleashed THE 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD on an unsuspecting public in 1958, it ended up being a watershed moment that changed people’s lives and the entire history of cinema in the process. That’s not hyperbole, either; there’s a direct line from THE 7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD to the fantastic worlds of STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and many similar films.

While forward-looking in matters of gender, Some Like It Hot is problematic in its representations of the Italian-American community. In this essay I will

Utvandrarna a new land... a new hope... a new dream Karl and Kristina Nilsson work on a farm in a cold and desolate area of 19th century rural Sweden. Growing privations, combined with increasing social and religious persecution, motivate the Nilssons and many of their neighbors to strike out for the United States. Following a treacherous ocean crossing and an equally grueling land passage, the emigrants find themselves in seemingly idyllic Minnesota.

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