Mildred Pierce
Todd Haynes has tried his hand at a variety of styles and narrative approaches. From Poison (1991) to I’m Not There (2007) his cinematic style has proven to be as… Read more »
Todd Haynes has tried his hand at a variety of styles and narrative approaches. From Poison (1991) to I’m Not There (2007) his cinematic style has proven to be as… Read more »
I often hear heated debates amongst my friends about Batman. Questions are posed to discriminate casual fans from the die-hard fans that know who Doctor Double X is. Many of these… Read more »
fifth column: a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.(dictionary definition) Dick Hebdige marks the beginning of “punk”… Read more »
In John Russel Taylor’s book Directors & Directions: Cinema For The Seventies he profiles an eclectic number of filmmakers and their contributions to the medium. One of the director’s Taylor features in… Read more »
I really like Jerry Lewis movies. A Friend of mine always made fun of me for it. He’d say I was the “only American who loved those films”. The first… Read more »
In spite of being a TNT production, Samson & Delilah (1996) still bears a few of the hallmarks of Nicolas Roeg’s inimitable style. However budget constraints and shooting conditions seem… Read more »
“My purpose in making Macbeth was not to make a great film – and this is unusual, because I think that every film director, even when he is making nonsense,… Read more »
Taking a close look at society and the lives contained within it, one often finds that our reality, in all of its absurdity, reads more like fiction than fact. This… Read more »
Peter Jackson’s much lauded adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings continues to resonate with audiences some fifteen years after the final film, The Return Of The King (2003), was… Read more »
In the following piece I make several references to Fabrice Ziolkowski’s article The Passion According To Jean-Luc, which appears on pages 48-49 of On Film issue #12. It may be helpful… Read more »