Deep Water
After a twenty year absence Adrian Lyne has returned to filmmaking. Deep Water (2022) is nowhere near Lyne’s masterpiece, Jacob’s Ladder (1990), but it never pretends to be. What Lyne… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Jennifer’s Body
Jennifer’s Body (2009) has been the subject of a remarkable reappraisal since its initial release. In those intervening years critics and audience’s have embraced its feminist message. When Jennifer’s Body… Read more »
La pelle
Liliana Cavani’s film La pelle (1981) is based on a novel of the same name by author Curzio Malaparte which was subsequently banned by the Catholic Church. The film, like… Read more »
Olivia
Jacqueline Audry’s film Olivia (1949), based on the novel by Dorothy Bussy, is almost entirely anomalous in the history of French cinema. Not only is Olivia a film directed by… Read more »
The Runaways
Floria Sigismondi’s The Runaways (2010) is an explosive and highly romanticized look at the early years of the titular band. Inspired more than based on Cherie Currie’s memoir Neon Angel:… Read more »
Variety
Bette Gordon’s film Variety (1983) follows Christine’s (Sandy McLeod) sexual awakening as she investigates the mysterious Louie (Richard M. Davidson). Christine begins the film as an out of work twenty-something… Read more »
Lost In Translation
How perfect is it that a film which so defined a generation should open with a shot of Scarlett Johansson’s buttocks? Sofia Coppola’s Lost In Translation (2003) is one of… Read more »
Moses und Aron
Danièle Huillet’s and Jean-Marie Straub’s Moses und Aron (1975) is the duo’s dialectical masterpiece. Their joint career was spent exploring the limitations of the cinema and mapping out its possibilities…. Read more »
Autumn Girl
Katarzyna Klimkiewicz’s Autumn Girl (2021) is an imagined week in the life of the legendary Polish actress and cabaret singer Kalina Jędrusik (Maria Dębska). Though set in the early sixties,… Read more »
My 20th Century
Just as the Berlin Wall was coming down, Ildikó Enyedi’s film My 20th Century (1989) imagines a late nineteenth century where technology brought the stuff of dreams and fairytales into… Read more »
