The Color of Pomegranates
The Color of Pomegranates, originally known as Sayat-Nova, is a 1969 Soviet Armenian avant-garde film written and directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film is a poetic treatment of the life…
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan and a paid undercover FBI informant on the last night of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March.
Modesty Blaise (1966 film)
Modesty Blaise is a 1966 British spy comedy film directed by Joseph Losey, produced by Joseph Janni and loosely based on the comic strip of the same name by Peter…
Eyes Without a Face (French: Les yeux sans visage)
Eyes Without a Face (French: Les yeux sans visage) is a 1960 French-language horror film directed by Georges Franju and starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, and Édith Scob.…
The Bright Legacy of Dark Shadows
Next year marks the 60th anniversary of Dark Shadows. The gothic soap opera wasn’t originally intended to include a vampire, but when creator Dan Curtis introduced the character of Barnabas…
Bell Telephone Magazine Spring 1966
I've become a little obsessed with this Bell Telephone Magazine from the spring of 1966 that I accidentally stumbled upon when I was looking for pictures of telephone lines on…
Editor in Mischief
Wilfrid Sheed’s novel of strife at a little magazine
Black Panthers (1968)
Black Panthers is a 1968 short documentary film directed by Agnès Varda. The film focuses on the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, during protests over the arrest of Black…
urban renewal
from Take This Hammer
Black Panthers on why they opened a clinic in Chicago in 1969
the contradictions within the system