No Mercy, No Future
Critics often talk about films as being “harrowing” or “transcendent” as if these traits were something that serious cinema should aspire to. All the while these same “harrowing” and “transcendent”… Read more »
Beggars Of Life
Why did you always hate making pictures, Louise? – William A. Wellman, 1932 Beggars Of Life (1928) is another unsung classic getting a second life courtesy of Kino-Lorber. Beggars Of… Read more »
The Rosary Murders
I’m really glad that Kino-Lorber have continued to release quality home video editions of overlooked and largely forgotten titles like Fred Walton’s The Rosary Murders (1987). Films like The Rosary… Read more »
Zodiac
Zodiac (2007) is David Fincher’s best film to date. His pacing has never been so tight, the sense of time and place has never been more tangible, and the answers… Read more »
Help!
A hell of a lot of pot was being smoked while we were making the film. It was great. That helped make it a lot of fun. – Ringo Starr… Read more »
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 »
Marie Antoinette
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 »
Naked
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 »
Looney Tunes: Back In Action
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 »
Gesamtkunstwerk
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 »
