The Best Picture Winners, Part 12 | Gone With the Wind (Part 1 of 2)
It has been a perennial of American film [...]
The Persistence of Disney, Part 10: Melody Time (1948)
The package films in Walt Disney’s animated cannon made between 1942 and 1949 are an odd bunch at best. They’re a grab bag of artistic...
The Persistence of Disney, Part 9: Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
Of all the Disney animated features, Fun & Fancy Free might have the dullest title of them all. It sounds like something drummed quickly up...
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #5: De Palma (2015)
Brian De Palma was one of the pillars of the New Hollywood that flourished in the late 60s and early 70s, the time when the...
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #4: Gip (2016)
It is not exactly news to report that a very large, significant part of Alabama history is written in the African-American experience. From slavery, through...
Sidewalk Film Festival Restrospective #3: The Lost Arcade (2015)
It is sort of amusing when someone becomes poetic about a passion that you yourself do not happen to share. Their mind goes to a...
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #2: Other People (2016)
Other People opens with a scene that I won’t soon forget. A family, at the worst moment in their lives gathers around the bed of...
Sidewalk Film Festival Retrospective #1: Little Men (2016)
Attending The Sidewalk Film Festival this year was not only the chance to attend a spectacular event, but it was also a chance to catch...
