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TPR's Nathan Cone looks at Spike Lee's masterful 'Malcolm X' on the occasion of the film's 30th anniversary and a new release on 4K Blu-ray by the Criterion Collection.
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A Criterion Collection employee found that less than 1% of its films featured African-American directors – so she created the Black Film Archive, which celebrates Black cinema with nearly 250 films.
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When I was ten years old, nuclear war seemed a real possibility. I knew U.S. relations with the Soviet Union were fraught through occasional glimpses of…
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Actor and director Edward James Olmos, best known for his roles including patriarch Abraham Quintanilla Jr. in the film “Selena,” his Oscar-nominated…
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Can you imagine watching David Lynch’s bleaker-than-midwinter prequel to “Twin Peaks” without having seen a minute of the TV show? That was me, back in…
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In a 2005 essay for NPR’s “This I Believe” series, filmmaker Errol Morris laid out the personal philosophy behind his documentary filmmaking: “Truth is…
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J.M. Tyree and Michael McGriff spent a year watching the entire Criterion Collection of classic films. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to them about their new book, Our Secret Life in the Movies.
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Mystery abounds in Peter Weir’s “Picnic At Hanging Rock,” a movie that would not ever be made today both for its unresolved plot as well as the subtlety…
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At one time in America, “The Little Tramp” was one of the most recognized characters in the world. Among classic movie characters, I think Dorothy from…
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It’s really a shame that any review of “On the Waterfront” is colored by EliaKazan’s infamous friendly testimony before the House Un-American Activities…