It is said that you cannot go home again. Literally, you can go home but which version of you goes? Not the one that disappeared. That version is long-gone. [These words are written from the dining room table of Jonathan […]

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Robert Redford changed my life. It was all the way back in 1997 and my friend’s sister heard I was really getting into independent film and was particularly interested in the Sundance Film Festival. Hell, who wasn’t back in 1997? […]

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Among the lingering ghosts of the cinematheque, our less-than-apt “silent” retronym persists. Nearly everyone refers to early films as such now; no one called them that then. These were moving pictures. Photoplays. As the saying goes in the decades since, […]

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(Check out Johnathan Marlow’s movie review of Four Nights of a Dreamer. A new 4K restoration plays September 5-18 at Film Forum in New York before hitting more theaters this fall. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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Moments: a conversation with Robert Downey Sr. (a prince) — Jonathan Marlow On the occasion of Truth and Soul, Inc., a 2014 retrospective in Los Angeles, Jonathan Marlow telephoned the extraordinary filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. in order to ramble on […]

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