Introducing Our New Film Podcast, <em>Open Form</em>

Introducing Our New Film Podcast, Open Form

Hosted by Mychal Denzel Smith

By Open Form | April 21, 2021

This bucolic 1946 newsreel about Daphne Du Maurier could also be the beginning of a horror film.

This bucolic 1946 newsreel about Daphne Du Maurier could also be the beginning of a horror film.

By Dan Sheehan | April 20, 2021

Dakota Johnson is set to star in Netflix’s film adaptation of Jane Austen’s <em>Persuasion</em>.

Dakota Johnson is set to star in Netflix’s film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

By Walker Caplan | April 20, 2021

Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

Monstrosity Plucked From Garbage Can: On Mae West’s early career as a controversial playwright.

By Walker Caplan | April 20, 2021

Watch Spalding Gray perform <em>Our Town</em>’s legendary opening monologue.

Watch Spalding Gray perform Our Town’s legendary opening monologue.

By Walker Caplan | April 16, 2021

An ode to Paul Bettany's mellifluous, magisterial turn as Chaucer in <em>A Knight's Tale</em>.

An ode to Paul Bettany's mellifluous, magisterial turn as Chaucer in A Knight's Tale.

By Emily Temple | April 16, 2021

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Watch the stunning new trailer for The Underground Railroad.

By Vanessa Willoughby | April 15, 2021

This 1980 George Plimpton TV commercial for video games is a masterpiece.

By Jonny Diamond | April 14, 2021

Finding Hemingway: Seeing the Self Behind the Self-Mythologizer

By Alex Thomas | April 14, 2021

Natalie Portman is your new Ferrante heroine.

Natalie Portman is your new Ferrante heroine.

By Dan Sheehan | April 13, 2021

Watch Kathy Acker read from <em>The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec</em>.

Watch Kathy Acker read from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec.

By Walker Caplan | April 12, 2021

On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

On the Long Tradition of the Imitative Performance of Blackness

Ayanna Thompson Considers the History of Minstrelsy, Racial Tropes, and the White Gaze

By Ayanna Thompson | April 12, 2021

Amy Solomon and Aparna Nancherla on the Intersection of Comedy and Anxiety

Amy Solomon and Aparna Nancherla on the Intersection of Comedy and Anxiety

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | April 8, 2021

Park Chan-wook is directing a TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s <em>The Sympathizer</em>.

Park Chan-wook is directing a TV adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer.

By Walker Caplan | April 7, 2021

The Gospel of Neo: How <em>The Matrix</em> Paved the Way for the Marvel Universe

The Gospel of Neo: How The Matrix Paved the Way for the Marvel Universe

Kim Taylor-Foster on the Cultural Impact of the Wachowskis’ Now Classic Trilogy

By Kim Taylor-Foster | April 7, 2021

Watch this endearingly low-budget Soviet TV adaptation of <em>Lord of the Rings</em>.

Watch this endearingly low-budget Soviet TV adaptation of Lord of the Rings.

By Vanessa Willoughby | April 6, 2021

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