Independents’ Day Independents’ Day
The most important day in the history of American independent film was May 8, 1947, which witnessed the opening of a picture so personal--no, so heedlessly self-revelatory--that ...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Honor the Blacklistees Honor the Blacklistees
After last year's brouhaha surrounding the presentation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Elia Kazan, one member of the academ...
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky
American Beauty or American Pie? American Beauty or American Pie?
*Last year, I was the guest editor of The Nation's first issue devoted exclusively to Hollywood and politics.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
Inside Indiewood Inside Indiewood
The Nation asked seven prominent members of the independent film community, including several filmmakers who released major films this year, to take the temperature of the movem
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Peter Biskind
Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood Mr. Hoch Goes to Hollywood
The film Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop will be released in 2000...we hope.
Mar 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Danny Hoch
Planetary Realignments Planetary Realignments
Last night a teenager killed himself below my bedroom window. I heard it happen: first a crescendo of police sirens coming up the avenue at two in the morning, then a crash.
Mar 9, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
On Leo, Gio and Tobey On Leo, Gio and Tobey
It's a sign of age: Mention 1985, and I will sometimes think you're talking about last year.
Mar 2, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Dog Days Dog Days
The first thing Jim Jarmusch asks you to do in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai is to look up and down.
Feb 23, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Craven Idolatry Craven Idolatry
For someone who misspent his youth in film societies and revival houses, where mushrooms develop more readily than social skills, a job as a movie reviewer wonderfully eases the ...
Feb 16, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
To Her, With Love To Her, With Love
I like a filmmaker who walks you into a story.
Feb 10, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans