Rescued from obscurity by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, Mikhail Kalatozov's I Am Cuba is sustained ecstasy for cinephiles, a dreamlike phantasmagoria of technique disguised as a pro-Castro ...

Like clockwork every four years, Americans are inundated with dire warnings that the wrong vote will plunge our nation into either the clutches of communism or the chokehold of fascism. Obviously, ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

I Am Cuba, Siberian Mammoth is a 2004 Brazilian documentary about the making of the legendary 1964 Russian-Cuban production I Am Cuba, a preposterous, beautiful, mannerist epic of Marxist agitprop ...

Contemporary film critics regard the epic film I Am Cuba as a modern masterpiece. The 1964 Cuban/Soviet coproduction marked a watershed moment of cultural collaboration between two nations. Yet the ...

They should be popping a magnum at the offices of Milestone, which is today releasing definitive DVDs of two of the most important films it has rescued from obscurity. The first, Charles Burnett’s ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Monday marked an emotional day for many people in the Cuban-American community around Central Florida. One after another, rallies erupted on street corners across Orlando as people who ...

I Was Cuba I stopped by the newly renovated El Tropicano for an upcoming Bar Tab review. Though many of my friends have already “snuck” down into Cuba to see the real historical splendor, I’ve only ...

A Cuban-born Harvard professor who fled the authoritarian island government warns against the Trump’s administration efforts to impose ideological oversight on American universities - just like they ...

Movies about the making of other movies are generally of interest to cinema buffs only – except when the epic that’s being talked about is an artifact of a collapsed social system. Then everybody ...