Film

The Woman in Green: A Chinese Ghost Tale from Mao to Ming, 1981-1381

Posted on October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 by MAMcIntosh

An appropriate end, or beginning, for a ghost that will live many, many more lives. 1981 The film begins on a darkened set, billowing with fog, echoing with a woman’s cry to the heavens. Her figure comes into view and she zigs and zags across the screen, her diaphanous white robe glittering with silver fringe.[…]

Newsreel or Not Real

Posted on July 9, 2019July 9, 2019 by MAMcIntosh

Culling impressions of the twentieth century from a vivid but imperfect source. In 1921, New Yorker Rosie Calinetti professed her intention “to be the greatest actress that the world has ever seen.” According to a bemused New York Herald reporter, Rosie was seven or eight years old, lived on Mulberry Street near Canal, and went to the[…]