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21 monologues by American playwrights create a fractured view of the US psyche, exploring national issues through perspectives ranging from sad to funny, angry to hopeful.

A series that is comprised of twenty-one monologues written by American playwrights which form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. Ranging from the sad to the hilarious, from the angry to the tentatively celebratory, many of the major and recurrent issues associated with our fraught but beloved union are reconsidered with elegance, wit, brutal honesty, and a little outright insanity.

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A video essay exploring the frequency and meaning of that particular prop in a wide variety of Sirk movies. Is it a device that traps and keeps women in an artificial world with a limited point of view? Or is it a gateway to the past and the future, and a distorted but nevertheless real vision of the roles that woman are forced to play in society? It's an exploration of the texts and subtexts of commercial films and the subterranean and complicated ways that they affect us and can be read.

An experimental film superimposing a clip from "Singin' in the Rain" over itself seven times.

The great French actor, Marcel Dalio, who has the lead role in Jean Renoir's THE RULES OF THE GAME, also appears in Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION. In both films he plays a character who is Jewish, as Dalio was in real life. In fact, in most of the French films he's in the 1930s, he almost always plays shady characters, informers, blackmailers and gangsters. In other words, he is always "the Jew." When the Nazis invaded France in 1940, he fled to America and appeared in CASABLANCA and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT. In America, he was no longer the Jew but The Frenchman. He became, in dozens of films, America's idea of a typical Frenchman. His film career has these two strands in which he has two different identities. Are you defined by other people and their perceptions of who you are? Are you always a creation of the way people want to see you? Or can you exist outside of the arbitrary boundaries which are placed on you?

In this short essay, Fandor takes a look back at the incendiary career of one of movie history's great directors, the legendary Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel, who died in Mexico in 1983.

Stars of the 1940s and 1950s, were they cast for their mutual affinities or for their commercial appeal? If and when they were re-starred years later, did the magic still work? Did sparks still fly? The movie business, a machine that manufactured romance and desire at the same time that it documented the process of aging. A meditation on youth and beauty, aging and box office.

Ready for a thought experiment? Hop on the universe's interspatial, multi-temporal highway, and travel back in time.

Video essay about the American director Lynne Sachs.

In this video, you'll hear exactly how much the movies Morricone has made music for rely on his mastery of dissonance, mood, and tension and, in one case, what happens when you take his music out. Hint: It certainly doesn't improve things.

When you think of Ryan Gosling, you probably think of the smooth and charming heartthrob that is the handsome lead in sappy romantic dramas. But why do you think that? Because of The Notebook, right? But what else?

You're watching a movie and you reach the final shot. What happens right before the credits? But what about when a film fades to white? Does this feel different? Extremely. Here's why.

Without a doubt, Udo Kier is one of film's most constant presences. Over the course of over 200 films, he's become nothing short of iconic, earning a well-deserved cult following from horror junkies are nothing short of unforgettable.

Harry Dean Stanton is one of the all-time great character actors in American film. Today, he celebrates his 91st birthday with the release of his film Lucky.

In her essay, Notes on Camp, Susan Sontag wrote, "The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration." There are few times this sentiment has ringed as true as in the films of Spanish Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar.

Jake Gyllenhaal is easily one of the most exciting actors working today.

A cutaway is also known as a band-aid because it's a tidy way to patch a cut. It can take many different forms, but its function is always to provide the editor with options in the cutting room.

In a sense, no matter what they're "about," all films are about time. Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-Wai, one of the strongest stylists working today, is fascinated with the manipulation of time.

Todd Haynes' Carol might not be the first movie to do moderate business but later inspire enormous devotion

John Carpenter may not have directed many box office hits, but he's got more cult classics under his belt than almost any other director. Watch this video to learn more about the films that influenced his work across all genres.