Queens At Heart
An anonymously made film about four trans women, Queens At Heart (1967) survives today due to the efforts of the UCLA film archive. It’s an exploitative documentary that’s too sensitive… Read more »
Blanche
Walerian Borowczyk’s Blanche (1971) might be the most authentically medieval film that I have ever seen. Borowczyk’s production design is authentic and detailed, his framing intentionally recalls the illuminated manuscripts… Read more »
Fools Rush In
Andy Tennant has made a career out of directing safe, family friendly romantic comedies. Fools Rush In (1997), his second feature film, establishes the generic tropes and television oriented sensibility… Read more »
Valkoinen peura
Erik Blomberg was a producer, a cinematographer and editor for years before he ever wrote and directed Valkoinen peura (1953). Blomberg knew the filmmaking craft, backwards and forwards, and was… Read more »
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Reality and dreams are interchangeable in this landscape where even news of a violent murder takes on a kind of poetic realism. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) is literally Demy’s… Read more »
Robotrix
Part homage to fifties robot movies, part softcore erotic film and one hundred percent campy adventure flick; Jamie Luk Kin-ming’s Robotrix (1991) is one of a kind, even by Hong… Read more »
My Childhood
There’s something about 16mm high contrast black and white film stock that is at once both tactile and dream-like. One can see this duality exploited obviously in David Lynch’s Eraserhead… Read more »
Knives Out
When I saw Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019) at my local Cinemark I disliked it. Seeing Knives Out two years later I like it even less. Johnson’s film is as… Read more »
La dama rossa uccide sette volte
Filmmaker Emilio Miraglia always infused his forays into giallo with Gothic trappings and tropes. La dama rossa uccide sette volte (1972) is no different, and may just be Miraglia’s most… Read more »
Jeunes filles impudiques
Jeunes filles impudiques (1973), released in english as Schoolgirl Hitchhikers, was Jean Rollin’s first forray into exclusively erotic material. Though most of his films are horror pictures with erotic soft-core… Read more »
