|Dan McCabe| Harry Cohn, president of Columbia Pictures, had a problem. Director Frank Capra, arguably the person keeping the lights on at Columbia, had a great script based on a popular short story. The issue? Directors and scripts didn’t sell movies during the Golden Age… Continue reading
|Jackson Stern| As a young man, I loved a good romance. Two people walking alone until, usually without warning, they’re cosmically entwined forever under a setting sun. It’s a pretty picture to see, especially when it features two unmistakably beautiful people whose smiles melt your… Continue reading
|Cole Seidl| The 10th annual Nitrate Picture Show in Rochester, New York didn’t announce a single film of its program before the festival began on June 4th. They didn’t need to—tickets had sold out within a week of going on sale in January. People, it seems, didn’t care what the program… Continue reading
|Rachel Buhman| “You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all” rings out as the most clangy criticism of rom-coms. Funny enough, it’s one of film’s most famous romantic characters, Kathy Selden, that utters those words in Singin’ in the Rain. Just before she admits to actually seeing a few of her… Continue reading
