By: Matthew De Abaitua

The exegesis has just begin.

By: Jerrold Freitag

“The will that aims toward its freedom plunges into the void.”

By: Adam McGovern

Classic virtuosity with lowly gimmicks.

By: Anthony Miller

He asks us to do some deep thinking about music and creativity.

By: Marilyn Berlin Snell

He thrived on “the silence that we have driven from our world.”

By: Lynn Peril

“Nothing makes me tremble like diamonds.”

By: Brian Berger

His career was a study in contrasts, brilliant and awful.

By: Tucker Cummings

A dancer who became a spy and a Civil Rights Movement icon.

By: Lynn Peril

Her look said: “Leave me the fuck alone.”

By: Tucker Cummings

He was told that he wasn’t built to be a versatile actor.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

He created beautiful, humane “ethnofictions.”

By: Brian Berger

“Throb, baffled and curious brain!”

By: Mark Kingwell

He gave life to Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more!

By: Astra Taylor

Director of quirky, moving, political, philosophical documentaries.

By: Franklin Bruno

He defined or refined the dialogue comedy, the war picture, the detective yarn, and more.