Sidney Franklin directed this pre-Code comedy of manners, with a screenplay by Hanns Kräly and Richard Schayer based on Noël Coward’s 1930 famous play, in which he had also acted.
Private Lives (1931): Sidney Franklin’s Pre-Code Comedy of Manners, Based on Noël Coward’s 1930 Famous Play, Starring Nirma Shearer and Robert Montgomery
December 20, 2024 by
Godard: Tribute to Jean-Luc Godard (Cannes Film Fest 2023–Classics)
December 19, 2024 by
“No one better than Godard in Le Mépris has ever practiced cinema as the art of editing and editing as the art of circulating intensities, of changing lines.
Berlin Film Fest 2025: New Beginnings–New Poster (No Bear Anymore)
December 19, 2024 by
Breaking from tradition, the poster for the 2025 Berlinale will not feature its mascot, the black bear.
Cinema 2024: Best Films of the Year (per Indiewire and other surveys)
December 19, 2024 by
Best Director: Brady Corbet, “The Brutalist,” RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys”
Sean Baker, “Anora.” All three should get Oscar nominations.
Books: Non Fiction–Tina Post’ “Deadpan” (Non-Fiction)
December 19, 2024 by
My work is preoccupied with racial performativity, especially (though not exclusively) the ways that black Americans perform racial identity.
