Desert Fury
I first heard about this little gem of a film from watching Mark Rappaport’s Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997). Desert Fury (1947) is a queer, hard as nails melodrama… Read more »
I first heard about this little gem of a film from watching Mark Rappaport’s Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997). Desert Fury (1947) is a queer, hard as nails melodrama… Read more »
The entire time I was watching the first season of Bridgerton (2020) I kept thinking about Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette (2006). I don’t think Bridgerton would exist without Coppola’s film…. Read more »
Mike Leigh’s film Naked (1993) isn’t so much concerned with the physical world of its characters, nor even its audience, but rather the spiritual world they inhabit. This assumption may… Read more »
I don’t know why people hate Looney Tunes: Back In Action (2003) the way they do. Negative reviews have kept me away from this Joe Dante classic for far too… Read more »
In 1982, semiotext(e) published Vol. IV, No.2, The German Issue. For this publication Hans Jurgen-Syberberg contributed the piece Our Syberberg. In a one-paragraph essay Syberberg not only outlines the purpose… Read more »
Ms .45 (1981) tells the familiar exploitation narrative about a woman who is raped several times in the course of a day and as a result begins killing would-be assailants… Read more »
Dracula (1931) is essentially an exercise in the style of Gothic Horror whose success succeeded in establishing that style as the definitive aesthetic of Universal Studios’ horror films of the… Read more »
It was undoubtedly gratifying to be the husband of one of the handsomest and most popular young married women in New York, especially when she was also one of the… Read more »
John Cassavetes’ film Opening Night (1977) is not surreal in the traditionally filmic sense, but in many ways comes closer to surrealism than most American films that claim to do so. Opening… Read more »
In 1991, Todd Haynes resurrected the romantic notion of the homosexual as an outlaw with his film Poison. Poison, loosely based on three different novels by Jean Genet, launched the… Read more »