An Introduction to Charlie Chaplin

David Lebovitz gives you a crash course in film from an esoteric genre, director, or foreign country’s cinema, complete with spoiler-free descriptions and analyses of films that act as a good starting point for your own celluloid journey. This edition, he presents you with a look at Read More …

An Introduction to the Coen Brothers

David Lebovitz gives you a crash course in film from an esoteric genre, director, or foreign country’s cinema, complete with spoiler-free descriptions and analyses of films that act as a good starting point for your own celluloid journey. In this edition, to correspond with the increasingly wide release Read More …

An Introduction to Neo-Noir

David Lebovitz gives you a crash course in film from an esoteric genre, director, or foreign country’s cinema, complete with spoiler-free descriptions and analyses of films that act as a good starting point for your own celluloid journey. This edition, as a follow up to his previous Read More …

An Introduction to Film Noir

David Lebovitz gives you a crash course in film from an esoteric genre, director, or foreign country’s cinema, complete with spoiler-free descriptions and analyses of films that act as a good starting point for your own celluloid journey. This edition, in honor of Noirvember, he presents you Read More …

An Introduction to Iranian Cinema

Iranian cinema is often listed by contemporary film scholars as some of the best cinema in the world. It has a case for this generation’s definitive non-American film movement – especially given the fact that many of the pioneering filmmakers were students of French New Wave Read More …

An Introduction to Israeli Cinema

As you might remember all of those days you ‘randomly’ had off during your school years, September is a big month for the Jewish people. We’ve already had Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, we’re currently in the middle of Sukkot, and Simchat Torah is coming Read More …