Choose Me
The difference between a screwball comedy by Howard Hawks or Peter Bogdanovich and Alan Rudolph’s Choose Me (1984) is the difference between serendipity and kismet. In Choose Me the coincidence… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter
Peter Handke’s short novel Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter, published in 1970, is a neo-existentialist novel that serves as a meditation on lost identities. Sartre’s conception of the “signifier”… Read more »
CODA
CODA (2021) tells the story of a hearing girl, Ruby (Emilia Jones), and her relationship with her deaf family of fisherman when she decides in her senior year of high… Read more »
The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) is one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most important pre-code operetta films because it marks the beginning of his collaboration with Miriam Hopkins. While Hopkins is very good… Read more »
Hundra
With Hundra (1983) B-Movie auteur Matt Cimber brought to the sword and sorcery genre the same quasi-feminist ideologies that he brought to the blaxploitation genre with his film Lady Cocoa… Read more »
Satánico pandemonium
Despite being sold as a provocative entry in the infamous nunsploitation canon Satánico pandemonium (1975) really defies the genre in a number of ways. Mostly this is done by a… Read more »
Ashes Of Time
Wong Kar-wai’s adaptation of Jin Yong’s novel The Legend Of The Condor Heroes, Ashes Of Time (1994), is a sort of turning point in the filmmaker’s career. Here his collaboration… Read more »
Don’t Torture A Duckling
Don’t Torture A Duckling (1972) is that rare film where director Lucio Fulci manages to equally balance his conflicting aesthetic obsessions. This is probably why Don’t Torture A Duckling is… Read more »
Memories Of Murder
Memories Of Murder (2003) was Bong Joon-ho’s breakout feature. Only his second feature, Memories Of Murder is a sophisticated film with an intricate narrative and a mature sense of stylization…. Read more »
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dorothy Arzner has this tendency to redirect the characters in her films away from the Romantic. The people who inhabit the worlds Arzner puts on film are just a little… Read more »
