Black Rainbow
I think the fact that Mike Hodges is British is essential to Black Rainbow (1989). When one looks at a foreign culture one sees little about it that is common… Read more »
I think the fact that Mike Hodges is British is essential to Black Rainbow (1989). When one looks at a foreign culture one sees little about it that is common… Read more »
Rolls-Royce Baby (1975) is essentially a film documenting Lina Romay (playing Lisa) tooling around in her fancy car looking for sex. Which, despite how it sounds, is pretty incredible. When… Read more »
Romain Basset’s Horsehead (2014) is definitely a case where style rules over substance. The images are beautiful, surreal, disturbing, and grotesque yet they lack any real symbolism. Basset’s tapestry of… Read more »
Les Témoins (2007) is André Téchiné at his most politically powerful. The film addresses the systematic homophobia that swept France in the wake of the AIDs outbreak of 1984. Téchiné… Read more »
Things like Making A Murderer (2015 – 2018) just do not happen every day. It’s rare that a documentary film or series constructively impacts our society let alone changes the… Read more »
Every fifty years an evil cat spirit returns to find a host to exact revenge against the Cheung family, the chosen guardians of humanity against this diabolical feline phantom. The… Read more »
There’s always been a shortage of films coming out of Hollywood about female camaraderie. Even rarer are films about the friendships between women that don’t have some iteration of the… Read more »
There are two things that really define Bob Fosse as a filmmaker to me. The first is his sense of montage whose rhythms and rhymes are as effective as they… Read more »
Jacob Chelkowski’s Tygrys (2015) is a film concerned with pornography. Porn’s lexicon of heteronormative images, the rituals of sexual performance, and the still taboo nature of kink are all at… Read more »
Andrzej Wajda’s Danton (1983) treats the political theater of the French Reign Of Terror as the Theater of Cruelty, condemning the oppression of the Polish Solidarity movement by the Soviet… Read more »