When Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope was released in 1969, America didn’t know what hit her. A surrealistic satire, the film hit all of America’s sore spo...
Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated movie to win the Best Picture Oscar. Now considered an American classic, its release was fraught with controversy, in...
Jim Anderson was one of three editors on trial for publishing OZ magazine, the now legendary psychedelic underground weekly accused in 1971 of ‘conspiracy to co...
A new Netflix film, Mank, directed by David Fincher, focuses attention on the career of Herman J. Mankiewicz. Citizen Kane, for which he wrote the screenplay (a...
Canadian-born, Native American actor Gary Farmer served as the moral conscience and spiritual center of Jim Jarmusch’s film Dead Man (1995), a cosmic reimaginin...
Charles Harrelson, father of the actor Woody Harrelson, was a card hustler, a self-proclaimed “hit man” and a convicted murderer of a federal judge. A 10-part p...
The Oscar-winning cinematographer (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) Haskell Wexler turned his hand to film direction with Medium Cool, set during the ‘Police Ri...
At the height of the Vietnam War, a renegade monk created a haven for peace on an island in the middle of the Mekong Delta. Deserters from all sides of the conf...
