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The Town That Kept Everything
There’s a version of small-town history where the past gets cleared away to make room for whatever comes next. The Victorian houses come down for ranch-style sprawl. The working waterfront completely disappears, making way for all-new Anywhere USA structures. The old essentially becomes a memory instead of a neighbor. Astoria didn’t really do that. Drive…
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The Women in the Room Where It Happened
There’s a version of the New Hollywood story you’ve probably heard. Scorsese, Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Altman… the movie brats and mavericks who blew up the old studio system and replaced it with something rawer, stranger, more alive. It’s a great story. And for the most part it’s true… again, mostly. But it leaves out something…
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The Grammar Nobody Taught You
Did you know that you speak a secret second language? You absorbed it in darkened living rooms and multiplexes and —if you’re lucky enough— maybe even drive-in back seats. No lessons or textbooks. Just years of watching, until it became instinct. Now you’re a fluent speaker. It’s called cinematic language. And the fact that nobody…
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Hold It: Why Physical Media Is Having Its Moment (Again)
On January 6th, Video Horizons on Duane Street quietly reopened under new ownership. There was no giant inflatable tube man or ribbon-cutting ceremony. Just that familiar, comforting scent of plastic cases and carpet; the kind of smell that promises you’re about to find something weird to watch on a Tuesday night. James Strecker and Coral…
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