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• 12/22/2022
  

  22 for '22: The Original Stories That Made the Year on HNN

  by Various Authors

  Choosing the stories of the year is never easy, but these HNN originals captured the issues and events that defined 2022. We'll be back in 2023. 

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• The 10 Best Lincoln Moments in Film History

  by Thomas Doherty

  "Lincoln does not have the phallus; he is the phallus," proclaimed the editors of Cahiers du Cinéma in 1970, in a group-written polemic on the ideological superstructure of Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), John Ford's moody paean to the salad days of the Great Emancipator. The piece is a doozy of a performance, a high-wire act exemplifying the airy delights of the high renaissance of French-accented film theory. Alternately enlightening and maddening, the essay ends on a declaration that few Americans could ever abide: that in Ford's film, Lincoln emerges finally as a figure of “monstrous dimensions.” A monster? Not Abe, never Abe -- he is our guardian angel, secular saint, and -- virtually since the birth of American cinema -- celluloid hero.