Cinema Scholars

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From the moment the soundtrack starts in David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, I felt a certain sense of nostalgia. This movie didn’t make me feel like it was 2026. It made me feel like it was 1986. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought 22-year-old me was sitting in the Willowbrook Mall theater watching ...

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Almost 35 years into his career, Quentin Tarantino remains one of the most distinctive and influential filmmakers of the modern era. Emerging from the independent film scene of the early 1990s, he announced himself with Reservoir Dogs (1992). Sharp dialogue, nonlinear storytelling, and incredible bursts of violence defin...

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From 1929 until 1965, the famed New York City establishment, The Stork Club, was one of the world’s premier nightclubs. Here, movie stars mingled with royalty, and showgirls canoodled with aristocrats. The club was so popular it appeared in several movies. These included All About Eve (1950), The Wrong Man

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I’ve always had a soft spot for films set in feudal Japan. I’m not entirely sure why. Perhaps it’s the rigid sense of order that governs the world, or maybe it’s because so many of these stories unfold with the tragic inevitability of a Shakespearean drama. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Samurai and the Prisoner, based on the no...

Cinema Scholars reviews the new Anthony Bourdain biopic, Tony. The film is directed by Matt Johnson and stars Dominic Sessa, Antonio Banderas, and Emilia Jones. A24 is releasing Tony in theaters nationwide on August 27.

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Some film biopics span a subject’s entire life. However, a new crop o...