Lugosi not only acts in Wood’s movies and gives each scene his all—at one point he jumps into the water to wrestle a broken mechanical octopus—but also encourages Wood’s belief in their vocation...

Diaz was born in 1958, eight years after the official independence of the Philippines from the US was declared, and seven before Marcos ascended to the presidency...

The Misfits carries in itself the nature of an allegorical tale that throws itself deep into the thick of postmodern demands...

After the local video-game arcade and the local comic-book store, the finest establishment on earth was the local video-rental outlet, a paradise of garish rectangular boxes leaning precariously on wooden shelves divided roughly by genre...

It was not just in liberal consumer societies that families recorded vacations and rites of passage. Home cameras and projectors were also available in socialist societies like the German Democratic Republic...

Success, for Mankiewicz, meant Broadway, not half credit on some blockbuster...

Sun of the Soil is a form of artivism that aims to engage not only local communities through street performance...

The blood would be Bosco’s chocolate syrup and the guts would be ham, donated from a local butcher shop....

“Aging for me is not a condition, but a subject,” said Agnès Varda in her Norton Lectures at Harvard University in February 2018, shortly before her 90th birthday...

In the coastal villages of southern Kent, the breeze off the water is said to cause things to age quickly: iron to rust, brass to discolor, lichen to cover roofs like the scales of a lizard...

Atomic Garden, an experimental film by Ana Vaz, opens with a purely textual prologue: Aoki Sadako, an elderly Japanese woman, visits her flower garden...

More than once, my maternal grandmother went to a Seattle fire station for aid, certain she was having a heart attack.

Thanks to Instagram and all its metastasized relations, nowhere is so far off the beaten path we can’t experience it visually...