Cinemathon With Charley Walters

I recently sat down with Josh Gray (Dreamland’s Director of Creative Programming) to choose films for the continuation of last […]

Following Jean-Luc Godard’s death three years ago, I wrote a Cinemathon piece about the French filmmaker. Today I’m focusing on

Jesse Armstrong, after writing several comedy series and films, became best known for creating, writing, and show-running the television sensation

Last week’s column referred to Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, which in 1952 was Sight & Sound magazine’s first decennial

Beginning in 1952, every ten years the U.K. magazine Sight & Sound has listed the greatest films of all time,

Danish author Isak Dinesen (1885–1962) may have achieved her greatest success in 1985 with Out of Africa, her 1937 memoir

In 1962 during the Cold War, the Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, an obvious threat to the security

At 1:23 p.m. a subway train leaves Pelham Bay Park station in the Bronx and heads south to Manhattan. Minutes

Growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the 1950s and 1960s, I had three arthouse cinemas within walking distance of our

Earlier this month CNN presented a live international broadcast of Good Night, and Good Luck, the Broadway play starring George

He came almost out of nowhere around 1980 to become one of cinema’s most recognizable and prolific actors. Yet in

Jean Seberg was born in 1938 into a middle-class family in Marshalltown, Iowa (where as a teenager she babysat for

Howard Hughes was a household name in the mid-20th century. Inherited wealth led him to even more profitable ventures in

Made-for-television films were in style in the 1970s. ABC, for example, produced dozens of these inexpensive 90-minute offerings, and aired

In 1998 Berlin, a low-level criminal needs 100,000 Deutsche Marks (about $100,000 in today’s currency) to make up for losing

Dramatic actors can take on comedic roles and we don’t think much about it – think Meryl Streep or Robert

Sequels have been big in cinema for decades, and that’s hardly news. But they’re always an iffy business. Yes, filmgoers

Yes, I suppose it’s a trifle, but sometimes those are the things we remember most fondly. This 1968 British comedy

This past Monday The New YorkTimes Business section published an article on Warner Bros.’ current financial difficulties. They stem largely from recent

This past week the Dreamland screened Witness for the Prosecution (1957) as part of its Matinee Classics series. This coming Tuesday at

French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard moved to London in 1968 to make a film about abortion, but soon came to feel