I Wanna Hold Your Hand
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »
Runaway Daughters (1994) opens with a montage of black and white news footage and television commercials set to the tune “Let The Good Times Roll” before segueing into a drive-in… Read more »
“There goes my career in noodles” – Mr. Futterman Gremlins (1984) opens like an old anthology horror comic as the inventor Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) ventures into Chinatown in search… Read more »
The eighties were the decade when shopping malls conquered the U.S. and developers made a fortune off of failed farms, old neighborhoods, and tracts of neglected lands. The mall was… Read more »
Joe Dante’s film Matinee (1993) is as much an homage to filmmaker William Castle as it is a tribute to the cinema’s role as a commentator on and reflection of… Read more »
Eleven years after collaborating on the fantastic Western film Lonely Are The Brave (1962), director David Miller and writer Dalton Trumbo made Executive Action (1973). As the Watergate scandal and… Read more »
Summer School Teachers (1974) was the second film Barbara Peeters wrote and directed for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. As the title suggests, the film follows the love lives of… Read more »
Angie Dickinson had been playing tough broads for most of her career; from Rio Bravo (1959) and The Killers (1964) to Point Blank (1967). For producer Roger Corman, Angie Dickinson… Read more »
Dick Miller plays Walter Paisley; a bus boy, a square, a doofus and a homicidal maniac. After years of working at the trendy Beatnik cafe The Yellow Door Walter accidentally… Read more »
Allan Arkush’s film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) is a deeply felt, autobiographical expression by the filmmaker within the idiom of early sixties teeny bopper rock musicals. Arkush drew… Read more »