American Drama: The 56th New York Film Festival Jackson Arn December 2018 Festival Reports Film festivals – like film shoots, or warzones – waver between exhilarating and dull. One minute you’re thanking the heavens that something as wondrous as Ash Is Purest White, the latest Jia Zhangke film, exist...
New York Film Festival 2017: Robert Mitchum Retrospective + Main Slate Jackson Arn December 2017 Festival Reports To watch the films of Robert Mitchum – the Golden Age Hollywood star whose 54-year career was the subject of a major retrospective at the New York Film Festival this October – is to grow acquainted with a style...
Start Spreading the News: Summer of Sam (Spike Lee, 1999) and the ‘70s White Working Class Jackson Arn September 2017 Feature Articles On a warm August night in 1977, detectives arrested a man outside his apartment building, located an hour north of New York City. Even with two guns pointed at his head, the man, whose name would soon be on the...
