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Put Some “Mank” on It
J. D. Connor explains what “Citizen Kane” would look like if it had only industry politics and no real ones: it’d be “Mank.”
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers
Billy Wilder’s “Amerikanismus”
A newly translated collection of the great director’s early German journalism.
Despite All My Rage: Neocolonial Cage in “The White Tiger”
Wilson Taylor considers the shortcomings of Ramin Bahrani's adaptation of "The White Tiger."
“You Couldn’t Even See”: Genre, “Thomasine and Bushrod,” and the Matter of Black Film
Nicholas Forster explores the question of how to define Black film through a close look at the 1974 film “Thomasine and Bushrod.”
The Unruly Masses: Andrei Konchalovsky’s Cautionary Tale
Andrei Konchalovsky’s “Dear Comrades” is an anti-protest protest film.
Why (and How) August Wilson Marginalized White Antagonism: A Note for Hollywood Producers
Miles P. Grier examines how Hollywood has snuck white people into the center of August Wilson’s explorations of Black life, most recently in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”
Burning Down the House: On the Operatic Impulses of “Promising Young Woman”
Olivia Giovetti explores the operatic roots and resonances in the film “Promising Young Woman.”
A Very Acute Watcher: A Conversation with David Thomson
Jonathan Kirshner interviews David Thomson on his book “A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors.”
Poetic and Real: A Conversation with Mark Harris
The author of a new biography of Mike Nichols discusses his subject’s theater and film legacy.
Where Gilded Ages Go to Die: Hollywood Returns to the 1930s and ’40s
A new essay by J. T. Price from the High/Low issue of the LARB Quarterly Journal, No. 29.
Real Life Rock Top 10: February 2021
LARB presents the February 2021 installment of “Real Life Rock Top 10,” a monthly column by cultural critic Greil Marcus.
Labyrinths: The Films of Milla Jovovich and Paul W. S. Anderson
R. Emmet Sweeney details the collaboration of writer-director Paul W. S. Anderson and actress Milla Jovovich.
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