After working as an uncredited screenwriter on Sergio Leone’s Man with No Name cycle, Fernando Di Leo made a series of popular "spaghetti crime" films in the early 1970's which heavily influenced director Quentin Tarantino and others. A Di Leo retrospective at the Metrograph starts Friday, including an important trilogy, one of the Leone films he worked on and the Tarantino movie most informed...

In the 1960's my maternal grandmother lived alone in a small trailer by the yacht basin in Carolina Beach, North Carolina. My mother often wished that we (a family of eight!) lived in a trailer too because, she said, it would be easier to keep clean. So I know about trailer park culture. But I never visited a mobile home community as idyllic as...