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 »
Annette
Leos Carax returns to the cinema with his most ambitious project yet. Annette (2021) is a rock opera by Ron and Russell Mael (the band Sparks for those few who… Read more »
Human Highway
Against the backdrop of imminent nuclear war with Russia, on a lonely stretch of road by a nuclear power plant there sits a quiet diner and gas station. In this… Read more »
The Devil’s Nightmare
The Devil’s Nightmare (1971) is an underrated French modern Gothic horror film. The interjection of exploitation tropes, such as the soft-core sex scenes between women, into the film throws the… Read more »
Singapore Sling
In a house that could belong to Norma Desmond in a world similar to that of the Merchant/Ivory film Savages (1974) live a Daughter (Meredyth Herold) and a Mother (Michele… Read more »
Keeping The Faith
For his directorial debut Edward Norton (who also stars) assembled quite the ensemble cast including Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach, and Miloš Forman. Personally I preferred Bancroft… Read more »
The Seventh Curse
The Seventh Curse (1986) finds director Lam Ngai Kai true to form. The Seventh Curse is deliriously violent, amply gory, and packed to the gills with bizarre creature effects that… Read more »
Vinyl
Andy Warhol’s film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange,Vinyl (1965), opens in a close-up just like Stanley Kubrick’s version. Vinyl begins with Gerald Malanga’s face filling the screen…. Read more »
The Green Knight
David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) attempts to locate a 21st century version of morality in adapting the Arthurian poem. Consent, honor and selflessness prevail in Lowery’s version surprisingly well… Read more »
Massacre In Dinosaur Valley
Michele Massimo Tarantini spent the seventies directing a plethora of low budget sex comedies before moving on to adventure films in the eighties. The sensibilities of Italian sex comedies don’t… Read more »
