Charlie the Innkeeper (1940)

"Terrace House" improves on the standard reality TV format by affording its cast privacy, freedom, and respect.

This short film was an overall creative success.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.

That gut-wrenching feeling you have while watching it is okay but needed, and you, the viewer, will be okay.

Tarantino's alternative history of the 1960's uncritically repeats the era's sexist and racist stereotypes.