Editor's Note: This is the fourth post in our theme for February 2025, "Celluloid City," which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here By Alyssa Lopez In March 1935, when sixteen-year-old Lino Rivera pocketed a knife while cutting through the S.H. Kress dime…

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26.02.2025

THE CITIZEN, FILM, AND INDIA’S NATION-BUILDING PROJECT: A QUEST FOR MODERNITY – The Metropole

Editor's Note: This is the fifth post in our theme for February 2025, "Celluloid City," which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here. By Shruti Hussain We lock eyes with a stream of children, of women and men, peering straight at the camera…

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27.02.2025

George Romero’s Pittsburgh: City of the Living Dead – The Metropole

Editor's Note: This is the sixth and final post in our theme for February 2025, "Celluloid City," which explores the role of and interplay between cities and film. You can see all posts from the theme here. By Victoria Timpanaro October 1, 1968 was the world premiere of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living…

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Introducing The City Aquatic – The Metropole

Editor's note: This is the first post for April 2025's The City Aquatic theme. See here for additional entries in the theme. Thirty years ago, Universal Pictures released Waterworld, directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner as a balding amphibious mutant who traverses the world on his trimaran, a boat that film critic Roger…

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