Movies: Smashing

The short film for “Black or White” premiered on November 14th in 1991 and was viewed by the largest TV audience ever for a music video premiere, more than 500 million people. Director John Landis told the Associated Press in advance of the release o...

The title may evoke images of gleeful, destructive anarchism, but "smashing" here signals a relationship between people and official city statues that is friendly, jovial, even a little melancholic....