The Third Man (and Still Dots) ends with one of the most remarkable final images in the history of cinema, an overwhelming fusion of form and content that makes clear just how irrevocably Holly Martins’ life has changed. Jeremy charted this solemn transformation on Tuesday, tracing all of Holly’s medium-shots to close-ups throughout our series and discovering a man whose sense of morality has been…

The first film documentarian and 2012 MacArthur “genius” Laura Poitras saw in art school was avant-garde artist Ernie Gehr’s Serene Velocity (1970). Included in our Renegades exhibition, the experimental work “blew holes in my mind” and shaped her future work.

For its Stanley Kubrick show, LACMA has created a free app to share documentation from the director’s career. Included: a 2001-era letter from Kubrick to Roger Caras asking, “Does IBM know that one of the main themes of the story is a psychotic computer?”

Nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards have just been announced and one of the titles that keeps coming up is Beasts of the Southern Wild, which screened at the Walker in June and is up for four prizes, including best feature and best director.

A Walker artist-in-residence in 2002, Alan Berliner won Best Feature-Length Documentary at the just-closed International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam for First Cousin Once Removed, a brutally frank look at the decline of Edwin Honig, a poet and translator.

For this, our last close-up of Holly and our second last post in this series, I thought it apropos to look through the close-ups we have seen of him so far. If, as Charlie Chaplin is quoted as saying “Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot,” then perhaps this […] For this, our last close-up of Holly and our second last post in this series, I thought it apropos to look through the…

Harry Lime — the dead man who became undead, then alive again; the phantom who permeated the streets of Vienna; the name that crossed the lips of every main character in The Third Man; the unseen face (for the first hour, anyway) whose devious charisma haunted the mind and memory of his friends, lovers, and […] Harry Lime — the dead man who became undead, then alive again; the phantom who permeated the streets…

After a long subterranean sewer chase , and many escape attempts by Harry, foiled by the team of nameless police officers who haunt every exit and underground nook and cranny, Harry’s fingers are finally tasting the cool, clean air of freedom. In the tunnels below, Sergeant Paine lies dead or dying, fatally shot by Harry’s […] After a long subterranean sewer chase , and many escape attempts by Harry, foiled…

Nov. 25 marks 65 years since the first Hollywood blacklist was released, baselessly naming suspected communists or sympathizers. The Hollywood Reporter commemorates the day with a look at its role in fanning the flames and an apology from the son of its founder.