A Hard Day’s Night
“We didn’t want to make a fuckin’ shitty pop movie. We didn’t even want to make a movie that was going to be bad.”-John Lennon, 1970 “Aesthetic experience exists. A… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Katzelmacher
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most infamous play, Garbage, The City, & Death (1975), is a kind of revisionist cabaret assault on the audience. By that point, Fassbinder had extended his creative… Read more »
Imagine
John Lennon is known to most as the leader of The Beatles. In addition to being a songwriter, Lennon was a poet, a humorist, an illustrator and play-write. However, with his… Read more »
Lilith
Robert Rossen is best known for having written and directed All The King’s Men, Alexander The Great and The Hustler. But little is written of his final feature, the intimate… Read more »
The City Of Lost Children
Here is a piece I wrote for the Cinematheque Internationale of Philadelphia in 2011. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro completed and released their film The City Of Lost Children in… Read more »
Agony
Shot between 1973 and 1975, and released in 1982, Elem Klimov’s film of the life of Grigori Rasputin, titled Agony, is one of the watershed films with regard to the… Read more »
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bryan Singer’s film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) is only fun if you are a fan of Queen. The film is a biopic of the late Freddie Mercury that is more invested… Read more »
The Flame & The Arrow
By 1950, Jacques Tourneur had made a name for himself as one of the most versatile and economic of filmmakers working in Hollywood. He had helmed such acclaimed titles as… Read more »
Spring Breakers
As the title of Harmony Korine’s latest film suggests, Spring Breakers (2012), the filmmaker’s interests have shifted dramatically from realism to commercialism. The title alone suggests that Korine has decided… Read more »
The Unforgiven
Ethan Edwards and Ben Zachary are not as akin as one may first perceive, they are as point counter point as the superstars who depict them, John Wayne as Edwards… Read more »
