La femme publique
La femme publique (1984) is a film about a woman drawn into two self-destructive relationships with men who are corrupted from within by their vanity and their own hunger for… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
10 On Ten
Throughout Abbas Kiarostami’s career he sought emotional and spiritual truths by investigating the cinema on a technical level; dissecting, rearranging, and deconstructing its various technical and philosophical machinations. Ten (2002)… Read more »
The Scarlet Empress
There are few things as fierce as Marlene Dietrich in our culture. The persona Dietrich created and Josef von Sternberg curated in the cinema is the stuff of legends. Entire… Read more »
Treasure Hunt
I remember the first time that I saw Noah Baumbach’s Kicking And Screaming (1995). I became all excited when Carlos Jacott is at the airport carrying a framed one-sheet for… Read more »
Tomorrow Is Forever
`Woman, disturb me not now at the last,But let me hold my purpose till I die.Sit down again; mark me and understand,While I have power to speak. I charge you now,When… Read more »
Starcrash
Starcrash (1978) is probably exactly what one would expect from a Roger Corman produced Star Wars (1977) knock-off; it’s cheap, campy, gaudy, and hilarious. Since I first saw this film… Read more »
Chocolat
Claire Denis’ has given us some of the best films about French colonialism in Africa. Chocolat (1988), her directorial debut, inaugurates her career long investigation into what imperialism meant and… Read more »
Portrait Of Jason
People talk about Rio Bravo (1959) being one of the great “hang out” movies of all time, but, for me, Portrait Of Jason (1967) totally eclipses Rio Bravo in that… Read more »
Latitude Zero
Latitude Zero (1969) is my kind of special effects movie; every effect is practical. I grew up watching Stingray (1964) so these sorts of model heavy effects from the sixties… Read more »
Give My Regards To Broadstreet
One often hears rock musicals criticized for being nothing more but a loose thread of a plot stringing together a series of disparate music videos. Of course this isn’t always… Read more »
