‘Singin’ in the Rain’ – Gene Kelly’s gotta dance on HBO Max

Debbie Reynolds and Donald O’Connor costar in the Technicolor classic that has been hailed as the greatest American musical ever made. It placed in the number 10 spot in the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll.

‘Millennium Actress’ – Satoshi Kon’s celebration of cinema free on Hoopla

As loving and perceptive a tribute to the power and legacy of movies as I’ve ever seen, Satoshi Kon’s animated drama Millennium Actress (Japan, 2001) deftly weaves history and film and memory into an imaginative meditation on way the movies become a part of our lives. It’s Not exactly the first thing you’d expect from […]

‘Dawson City: Frozen Time’ – Film/history on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy

Bill Morrison’s films straddle film history and avant-garde expressionism, mining the wealth of silent film history and exploring the abstract beauty of decaying nitrate film, a particularly volatile medium that breaks down over time. Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) celebrates the “Dawson Film Find” of 1978, thousands of reels of film buried in the permafrost, […]