All That Heaven Allows
All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 American melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter, and adapted by Peg Fenwick from a story by Edna L. Lee…
Jane Baer, Animator on ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ‘The Rescuers’ and ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit,’ Dies at 91
Jane Baer, whose half-century in animation including work on such films as Sleeping Beauty, The Rescuers and Who Framed Roger Rabbit, has died. She was 91. {read}
The Road Warrior
Mad Max 2 (released as The Road Warrior in the United States) is a 1981 Australian post-apocalyptic dystopian action film directed by George Miller, who co-wrote it with Terry Hayes…
Perfect Blue
Perfect Blue (Japanese: パーフェクトブルー, Hepburn: Pāfekuto Burū) is a 1997 Japanese animated psychological thriller film directed by Satoshi Kon. It is loosely based on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis…
“Somewhere in Detroit”: Underground Resistance, Submerge, Techno and the Detroit Way
Somewhere in Detroit is a new short film about Detroit’s greatest musical collective since Motown, the cooperative and record label dubbed Submerge and UR (Underground Resistance). The mini-documentary reveals intimate…
Dangerous Light
On a lost effect from the analog film era.
Peter Hujar’s Day
Peter Hujar's Day is a 2025 American biographical drama film written and directed by Ira Sachs. Set during the 1970s, the film stars Ben Whishaw as photographer Peter Hujar and…
Eve’s Bayou
Eve's Bayou is a 1997 American Southern Gothic horror drama film written and directed by Kasi Lemmons in her feature directorial debut. Samuel L. Jackson served as a producer, and…
HistoryExtra podcast: Untold LGBTQ stories of the National Trust
In 1895, when the National Trust was founded, homosexual acts of ‘gross indecency’ were still illegal in Britain. And yet, as Michael Hall reveals in his new book, A Queer…