Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Christopher Munch has a sense of history. He started his independent filmmaking career in his mid-twenties, with “The Hours and Times” (completed in 1991), a drama about the brief but consequential…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story In the spring of 1938, the Nazis were circling like vultures around Berggasse 19, the Vienna home of Sigmund Freud. The German Reich had annexed Austria on March 13th, and Hitler…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The action in “The Pass” unfolds in a picturesque community on Long Island’s North Fork. The man in the water is already clearly uncomfortable when another man, standing on the shore,…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The latest feature from Pixar Animation Studios, “Elemental,” about a fire creature and a water creature who fall in love, earned less than thirty million dollars at the U.S. box office…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The director Kelly Reichardt was in a state of irritation at a screening of her eighth and latest feature film, “Showing Up.” Certain she had come to the theatre early, Reichardt…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story When I was a child, war was a secret. And you certainly couldn’t call it war. It was known as the Troubles. Even its name was a kind of disguise. The…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On April 3, 2001, Alanis Morissette and Don Henley appeared before Congress in a bid to save the music industry. Henley, the drummer and a lead vocalist for the Eagles, was…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The notion of a perfect movie is absurd, but some movies attain an ideal synthesis of the director’s body of work. Wes Anderson’s latest, “Asteroid City,” is one such film. Although…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story The demonstrations that took place in Portland, Oregon, in the course of 2020 might constitute the most thoroughly documented social movement in American history. At least when I was there—in August…
Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story History is filled with secret heroes whose behind-the-scenes actions are essential to the exploits of public-facing heroes. Bringing these figures out of the shadows is a key role of historians. Helen…
