While few recall her film works today, The Girl on a Motorcycle, released in the “revolutionary year” 1968 as my old colleague Christopher Hitchens always described it, has an obscure but significant ...
Reviews were middling, but the film picked up a couple of Oscar nominations (including one for Holly Hunter, who had less than six minutes of screen time), and was a roaring success at the box office.
Can we learn from the past? We must. Immediately after the Civil War, radical Republicans collaborated with President Abraham Lincoln to assist the newly freed slaves with a program called ...