formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
storage facility in São Paulo’s Vila Leopoldina, belonging to the Cinemateca Brasileira, the largest collection of moving images in South America. Firemen fought to contain the blaze for over four hours, as bright-red flames and thick smoke engulfed the top … Continued
American viewers looking for British TV shows and movies can often be stymied by a byzantine system of international rights and a scattered system of streaming services that carry different slices of U.K. content. Yet we can’t get enough: British … Continued
Alamo Drafthouse would like you to know that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. In March, the fan-favorite dine-in cinema chain triggered convulsions of Twitter agony with the announcement it was filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and shuttering … Continued
Theaters are cautiously reopening, Cannes is back on the calendar (with fingers crossed) for July, and jittery studios have been shuffling around release dates for all the blockbusters that were bumped from last year. In other words: Movies are back, … Continued
When the news came down last Wednesday that Alamo Drafthouse — the Texas-based dine-in-theater chain beloved by cineasts for its boisterous screenings and boozy milkshakes — was filing for bankruptcy and permanently closing several locations, Movie Twitter lit up with … Continued
The only surviving image from the world’s first film adaptation of Little Women doesn’t reveal much: A group of young women, dressed in gowns, mingling with some men beneath a chandelier. It might be the pivotal party scene from Louisa … Continued