That Obscure Object Of Desire
Human beings are irrational; it’s a fact that emotion dictates the better half of our actions and our beliefs. This irrationality allows us to behave in some of the most… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Jubilee
Jubilee (1978) was Derek Jarman’s much anticipated follow-up to Sebastiane (1976), and like Sebastiane, Jubilee was shot on a low-grade color film stock with shots composed to evoke the classic… Read more »
Ten Days’ Wonder
Claude Chabrol’s film Ten Days’ Wonder (1971) is about a young man named Charles (Anthony Perkins), his domineering father Theo (Orson Welles) and their romantic involvement with Helene (Marlene Jobert)…. Read more »
Joe
At its best the cinema of David Gordon Green is powered by a strong sense of space, location, and a natural alignment with regionalism. Like Terrence Malick, Green’s best films… Read more »
Hi, Mom!
This film is much more radical than Greetings. It deals with the obscenity of the white middle class. And we are white middle class, Chuck and I and everybody we… Read more »
Dolemite Is My Name
Devotees to “the Godfather of Rap” will find a lot to enjoy in Craig Brewer’s Dolemite Is My Name (despite some flaws concerning the order of events and which scenes… Read more »
Parents
Bob Balaban doesn’t seem like someone who would be responsible for a film like the aptly named Parents (1989). Based on his roles in Seinfeld (1989-98), Close Encounters Of The… Read more »
Eugénie de Sade
Jess Franco was one of the most prolific filmmakers who ever lived; completing an average of eight films a year during his most productive period in the early seventies. Though… Read more »
Love & Mercy
In the last decade there have been a number of quality biographical films. Always a popular genre with audiences, the biographical genre has always been a bankable contender for Academy… Read more »
Marnie
Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most highly regarded and popular filmmakers who ever lived. His aesthetic and narrative tropes are as immediately recognizable signifiers as the music of Bernard… Read more »
