Bright Lights Film Journal :: May 2003

May 2003 | Issue 40

Editorial

"Life's s a beautiful thing / As long as I hold the string..."

By Gary Morris

Articles

Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar's 75th

By Ben Dickenson

It's contagious — even Oscar dissented

They Lost It at the Movies: Film Culture in the Age of Positif and Cineaste

By Richard Armstrong

"I can't believe that you let these people put pictures on your skin." — C. W.'s father to C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde

Together Again for the First Time: Movies Holding Mirrors Up to Movies

By A. Jay Adler

Imitation: great for flattery, bad for art

Unintentional Camp and the Image of Will Smith

By Seth Nesenholtz

Camp — and coded queerness — finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith

Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, 2003

By Megan Ratner

Fine performances are the main attraction of this timely New York tribute to recent French film

The Sound of Jazz, the Sound of Gene

By Alan Vanneman

New DVDs offer rare TV appearances by jazz greats Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Goodman. But where's Thelonious Monk?

Desperately Seeking Ginger

By Alan Vanneman

Hollywood Rhythms, Vol. 2 on DVD offers relief for the Rogers-deprived

Movies

What's Rita in the Hay Worth?

By Alan Vanneman

Fred finds out in You'll Never Get Rich

"I Like His Face": Nicholas Ray's Noir Classic Restored on DVD

By Scott Thill

Do you like his face?

Fellini's Society Rehearsal: Orchestra Rehearsal Reconsidered

By Robert Castle

In which "Fellini takes us beyond our frailties and chaos"

Little Big Man: John Garfield Triumphs in Anatole Litvak's Out of the Fog

By Alan Kohn

Garfield wraps it up in this 1941 prole drama based on a Group Theatre production

How to Turn One's Back on a Tyrant: Part Two

By Andrew Grossman

The opposite of realism is not fantasy, but disappointment

Sex in Shangri-La: Wakefield Poole on DVD

By Gary Morris

"No top, no bottom. Just two men discovering each other."

Out of Focus Auto Focus

By Robert Ecksel

Hogan's Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years

From Joy Luck to Better Luck

By Ren Hsieh

The title is a little too accurate

Bowling a Strike for Columbine

By Robert Ecksel

Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting

The Beauty of Uncertainty: I Know Where I'm Going on DVD

By Megan Ratner

Powell/Pressburger's fairy tale comes to live on Criterion's DVD

Bad Film, Great Soundtrack: New Orleans on DVD

By Alan Vanneman

How Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday saved New Orleans from the Yankees

Stars

"Fabulous Gowns but No Pussy!": An Interview with Holly Woodlawn

By Gary Morris

A superstar talks Trash and papayas

Directors

Through a Glass Darkly: Bergman as Critical and Cultural Bellwether

By Richard Shaw

As Bergman goes, so go attitudes toward European art cinema

Making History: D. W. Griffith on DVD

By Matthew Kennedy

A weighty package of early films by the cinematic titan

Columns

Little Stabs of Homo Happiness (and Horror): Random Short Reviews of the Worthy and the Worthless in Recent and Old-School Cinema

By Gary Morris

Hits and misses from the arthouse to the grindhouse

Recent Posts

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Gordon Thomas, and other BL staff, check out the eye- popping pleasures of Blu-Ray.

» Monsoon Wedding (Mira Nair)
» The General (Keaton)
» Sunrise (Murnau)
» 8-1/2 (Fellini)
» Playtime (Tati)
» Winstanley (Brownlow & Mollo)
» My Childhood, My Ain Folk ... (Bill Douglas)
» In the Realm of the Senses (Oshima)
» Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney)
» Repulsion (Polanski)

BL Associate Editor Alan Vanneman watches (and reviews) television shows so you don't have to. Click if you dare.

» 30 Rock
» Broadway Theatre Archive
» Charlie’s Angels
» Death of a Salesman
» Freaks and Geeks
» Have Gun Will Travel
» Magnum P.I.
» Monk
» Pamela Anderson Roast

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