About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...

Elliot Lavine, programmer of pre-Code films at the Castro Theatre (every Wednesday through March 30), was raised in Detroit, moved to the Bay Area in the 1970s with the thought of becoming a filmmaker ...

While there's an argument to be made that these movies aren't old, simply classic, there's no question that they were made quite a long time ago. From pre-Code pictures that broke the boundaries of ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

“The dictator craze,” they called it. In the worst of the Great Depression, a time of 25% unemployment, some called for an American-style dictatorship. Democracy wasn’t working very well, time for a ...