Flop and Fizzle #15: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE portrays a community coming together
by Daniel Pecoraro, Contributor
It’s a Wonderful Life shows that it’s the friends, rather than the man, that are at the focus of the film’s moral.
Exit Through the Gift Shop: My Time at The Jimmy Stewart Museum
by Liz Locke, Staff Writer
The winter of 1999, with a high school civics class, and a polite phone call to the museum director, I got a crash course in Classic Hollywood.
SUMMER OF STARS #14: James Stewart
by Kevin Bresnahan, Contributor
The first thing to know about Jimmy Stewart is he didn’t like to be called Jimmy.
Printing the Legend: “What kind of town is America, anyway?” Part 2
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Democracy, violence, and the history we are living through now.
Printing the Legend: A Mann’s Legacy
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
In this month's column, Anthony Mann arrives on the scene with Barbara Stanwyck and Jimmy Stewart, changing the western forever.
Printing the Legend: From B to A
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Stagecoach, Destry Rides Again, and the revitalization of the western genre in 1939.
Rear Window
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1954)
by Sandy DeVito
The reason Hitchcock will always be synonymous with great filmmaking is because he knew how to make a seemingly banal setting into a grand dramatic stage, and could convey "normal" people the way we, humanity, really are -- convoluted, morally ambiguous beyond our liking, and each living our own complex and layered experience. Nowhere is this more magnified than in Rear Window, a masterpiece of subtle loveliness, suspense, and sophisticated narrative.
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