Frank and Penelope

The Boondock Saints actor Sean Patrick Flanery’s feature film debut as a director, Frank & Penelope, is a callback to the rebellious outlaw attitude […] The post Frank & Penelope first appeared on Film Threat.

Frank Bowling on color, the sublime, and painting paradox

For six decades, Frank Bowling has experimented with how personal and political memory can be sustained within the constraints of late-modernist abstraction. A solo exhibition, "Penumbral Light," is on view at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich through August 20, and a major survey, "Frank Bowling’s Americas," will open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in October. Below, the Guyana-born, London-based artist discusses his abstraction as an encounter with something simultaneously familiar and unex...

Screwball Comedy - history

The Notebook Primer introduces readers to some of the most important figures, films, genres, and movements in film history. Twentieth Century A common misconception about 1930s Hollywood cinema is that escapism was the trend du jour. The ubiquity of genres like historical melodramas and musicals indicates that rationale may be true to an extent, but even the most fantastic films were grounded in some semblance of social realism. And how could they not be? With ...

Discovering LaRochefoucauld | The New Criterion

The lightning & the key: a letter from William Franklin to Joseph Priestlyby Daniel Mark Epstein Exile to exile, England to America, Driven hence by nothing more than faith In our convictions, we commune once more, Old friend, man of science, man of God. Here they torched your house, there they burnt mine. Here your people fear your love of France— Marat, Danton, and the bonnet rouge— As mine once feared my fealty to the Crown. Hail, fellow, outcast across the sea! And thanks abundant, deep, ...

Frankenstein as sex monster

Hello, my name is Frank Hvam

P.O.V. No.26 - Humor in Film and TV Hello, my name is Frank Hvam - Autofictional humor in the Danish TV series Klovn Louise Brix Jacobsen They are perverted, embarrassing, and partial to toilet humor. No taboo is spared when they drag the disabled, the gay, and the overweight through the mud. We join them in the toilet, in the double bed, and at the doctor's. And they are famous. In the past three years, stand-up comedian Casper Christensen has been unfaithful with the badminton ce...