Raymond Clayton ThomasX-Rated: Inside the Myths and Legends of Midnight Cowboyverified_publisherVanity Fair - Glenn FrankelThe controversial best-picture winner with Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight arrived at a fraught moment not just in the evolution of filmmaking, but in the struggle for visibility of gay lives. An excerpt of a definitive new book. Joan Didion once wrote of Hollywood, “Much of what is written about …
Raymond Clayton ThomasThe 50 Best Movie Scores of All TimePitchforkWith the Oscars coming up this Sunday, Pitchfork is celebrating with our first Music & Movies week. Now that we’ve looked at the best soundtracks in film, let’s turn to the best scores. We’re defining scores as original music composed for a film, with recurring motifs and almost always without vocals. …
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/movie-poster-of-the-week-posters-from-hungaryRaymond Clayton ThomasMovie Poster of the Week: Posters from Hungarymubi.comIn the world of East European poster design, Hungary has always been somewhat of a poor relation to Poland and Czechoslovakia, whose artists have …
Raymond Clayton ThomasThe Best Films of 2020, According to IndieWire’s Staffindiewire.com - Kate ErblandIn a bizarre year, how and where we saw movies might have changed, but the reason why never did: to see new worlds, to feel new emotions, to meet new …
Raymond Clayton ThomasThe 10 Best Films of 2020verified_publisherThe Atlantic - By David SimsStandouts from an unprecedented year in cinema As we look back on film in 2020, maybe the strangest year in the medium’s history, the question will be whether it was an accelerant or an aberration. The coronavirus pandemic closed most movie theaters in the United States by mid-March, and though many …
Raymond Clayton ThomasThe Art of Movie Posters: View Online 40,000+ Movie Posters & Learn How They’re Madeopenculture.com - Colin MarshallIf you can’t judge a movie by its poster, it’s not for the poster designer’s lack of trying. Nearly as venerable as cinema itself, the art of …