Film Review: “The Spook Who Sat By The Door”
November 6, 2024
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Peter Lucas writes about a newly restored film classic that is screening at the DeLuxe Theater as part of the…
Peter Lucas writes about a newly restored film classic that is screening at the DeLuxe Theater as part of the…
On the occasion of an upcoming film screening and night of performances, Peter Lucas writes about the life and work…
Peter Lucas reviews the exhibition "Walter De Maria: Boxes for Meaningless Work," on view at the Menil Collection through April…
Peter Lucas on the films of Melvin van Peebles, a pioneer in African American cinema.
“For me, collage is based on collision. And I think that collision is indebted to the chance encounter.”
This new collection of video transmissions comes from makers in various states of disruption and contemplation, and goes out to…
This week, On Video spotlights two landmark films by artist Arthur Jafa available online.
Sure, it’s a little weird to catch half a Bergman film at 3 a.m., or an Italian horror film in…
This week’s picks especially benefit from better sound than your laptop speakers.
Len Lye and Norman McLaren were the first artists to create “direct animation” films, and both were deeply interested in…
This installment of On Video focuses on two very different films by African-American actor and director Ivan Dixon: the 1964…
The figures at the center of this week’s two spotlights — John Berger and Marshall McLuhan — are well known,…
For this first installment, I want to bring your attention to the often-overlooked TV show 'Soul!' of which I’d encountered…
A landmark of African American independent cinema by Dallas-born director Billy Woodberry.
The Media Center’s upcoming anniversary series will shed light on some fantastic slivers of its history as it presents a…
"He and the de Menils did some big-idea thinking, and committed themselves to getting it done in Houston."
The documentary acknowledges one woman’s noble act of refusal to let the flow of ephemeral media go unquestioned.
Starting today, I am taking over Glasstire’s Instagram feed for one week, and will be posting a collage of images,…
This broken landscape of self-involved cluster-narratives reflects our contemporary culture scarily well.
The infamous film documents the 1972 U.S. tour of rock group the Rolling Stones; it has never been officially distributed…
