Didi: Sean Wang’s Directorial Debut, Coming of Age Tale, Winner of U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, Acquired by Focus Features

The feature from Sean Wang won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award at the 2024 Sundance fest.

Film Theory: Queer Theory of the State–Samuel Clowes Huneke

Rather than eschew political engagement with democratic theorizing, Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state.

Death in Hollywood: Chita Rivera, Legendary Broadway Musical Star (“West Side Story,” 1957), Dies at 91

There is nobody who can dance, sing and act like Chita Rivera–Harold Prince

Birds, The (1963): Hitchcock’s Masterpiece–Female-Dominated Cast; Hitchcock’s Cameo

The Birds: What You Need to Know: Cast Dominated by Women; Hitchcock’s cameo

1 Hitchcock: Cameo Appearances–Saboteur, The Birds

Saboteur (1942) Hitchcock makes his trademark cameo appearance about an hour into the film (1:04:37), standing at a kiosk in front of Cut Rate Drugs in New York as the saboteurs’ car pulls up. In his book-length interview with François Truffaut (Simon & Schuster, 1967), Hitchcock says he and Parker filmed a cameo showing them […]