ScreenThe Case for Black and White
Sixty years of watching films in dark rooms, and the color question is still the wrong question. Here is where I would start someone today.
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ScreenThe New Hollywood Ran on Studio Fear. That Was Its Genius and Its Limit.
The 1970s New Hollywood was made possible by institutional panic, sustained by honest filmmaking, and ended by the blockbuster the directors themselves invented.
ScreenWhat to Watch When You Don't Know What to Watch
Four films across different eras and genres that earn the two hours you give them.
ScreenWhat Is Film Noir
Milt Calloway on what film noir actually is, where it came from, and why its visual grammar is still being written.
ScreenBest Black and White Movies: What the Absence of Color Actually Does
A guide for anyone who has seen the obvious choices and wants to know where to go next, from someone who has spent a long time in the dark watching what light can do.
ScreenBest Movie Directors of All Time
Milt Calloway's diagnostic read on the best movie directors of all time: not who made great films, but what each gave to cinema that didn't exist before them.
ScreenWhat Is Neorealism in Film
Milt Calloway traces Italian neorealism from postwar Rome to its influence on the films being made right now.
ScreenThe Golden Age of Hollywood Was Real. So Was the Cost.
What made the studio era's films extraordinary, and what the machine extracted from the people inside it.
ScreenThe Devil Wears Prada 2: Miranda Priestly Is Reason Enough
Meryl Streep carries a legacy sequel that earns most of what it asks for.
ScreenWhat to Watch This Weekend: Marty Supreme
Josh Safdie's Oscar-nominated ping pong epic just landed on HBO Max. Clear your evening.