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Theatrical poster for Walter Hill's The Warriors (1979).

The Warriors Was a Hit That Its Own Studio Treated as a Threat

A $4 million picture grossed about $22.5 million, and Paramount still spent the spring of 1979 pulling its own advertising. The Warriors is a case study in a studio mistaking its audience for the film.

Marcus Vell·2 Oct·5 min

A static television screen rendered in faded neon pink on black

Essays

On the Death of the Music Video

The music video as a form had a specific golden age. It is now largely dead, replaced by things that are not music videos. An essay on what we lost.

Jules Okonkwo·5 Nov·6 min

An isolated ranch house in winter light, lit by one upstairs window

Film

Longlegs: What Perkins Was Really Doing

A year after Longlegs' extraordinary marketing run turned into an extraordinary opening weekend, the film looks smaller than the hype suggested and stranger than the backlash allowed.

Marcus Vell·28 Jul·5 min