Between The Lines (1977)
Between the Lines is a 1977 American ensemble romantic comedy-drama film from Midwest Films. It was directed by Joan Micklin Silver and produced by her husband Raphael D. Silver. The…
How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's…
Ian McKellen finds another actor in the family
As the 'last of the McKellens', Sir Ian admits to a degree of melancholy as he delves into his family history. But the results pay off richly for one of…
Meet Marlon Brando (1966)
Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin • 1966 • United StatesStarring Marlon Brando, Rex Morgan, Mary Frann MEET MARLON BRANDO is a delightful, unusually candid portrait of…
THE RED TREE / L’ALBERO ROSSO
short documentary that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini's Fascist regime. In the film, an elderly man…
A City of Churches
Donald Barthelme
Fred Rogers
testifying before Senate on behalf of PBS
The Surprising Family History Charles Dance
Actor Charles Dance has made his name playing aristocrats, including Tywin Lannister in HBO's Game of Thrones. But the upstairs world Charles inhabits on screen is nothing like his own…
The Red Scare
and the attack on the labor movement
Farewell, David Johansen, the Ultimate New York Doll: He Was Good-Bad But Not Evil
“The world wasn’t ready for them,” Morrissey said in 2004. “Often it takes death within a group and then people say, ‘Ah, yes. We do like those people now that…