Actress
“Woman’s awareness of herself is not defined exclusively by her sexuality: it reflects a situation that depends upon the economic organization of society, which in turn indicates what stage of… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
No Such Thing
This evening I watched Hartley’s 2001 offering No Such Thing. Unlike Hartley’s most popular films, which deal with relationships and quirky characters, this film was much more overtly philosophical and… Read more »
Let The Fire Burn
Jason Osder’s Let The Fire Burn (2013) is undermined by the subtextual void created by Osder’s lack of commitment to explaining to his audience the very nature of MOVE, the supposed… Read more »
Red Rock West
Film Noir is a term created by critics to designate a particular kind of film made in Hollywood after WWII. Film Noir refers to crime films or thrillers that utilize… Read more »
Lightning Over Water
Wim Wenders is a filmmaker who has made some of the best films about the art of filmmaking. I’m speaking of Room 666, Tokyo-Ga, and Lightning Over Water. The first… Read more »
Berlin Alexanderplatz: Epilogue
Produced between 1979 and 1980, Berlin Alexanderplatz is Fassbinder’s masterpiece, and an epic in scope beyond the work of any other film in his prolific career. Shot by Xavier Schwarzenberger… Read more »
The Swimmer
Last Friday I had tea with my buddy Neal to discuss programming a series of Czech New Wave films. Chatting away, two content cinephiles, the subject of Frank Perry came… Read more »
Logan
“This repression of the ‘non-serious’ aspects of pleasure, of a discourse of fun, is not, of course, a total exclusion. Notions of distraction, diversion, and entertainment have appeared with regularity… Read more »
The Strange Woman
I didn’t really immerse myself in the work of Edgar G. Ulmer till late in 2012 after reading Todd McCarthy’s indispensable The Kings Of The Bs. This was the fourth… Read more »
Bathing Beauty
I have no clue when I first saw Bathing Beauty (1944). It had to have been after Albert Lamorisse’s The Red Balloon but around the same time as Robert Siodmak’s… Read more »
