Ms. 45
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
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 »
The Age Of Innocence
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 »
Opening Night
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 »
The Living End
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 »
Touch Of Evil
Orson Welles presents himself as an interesting phenomenon of studio era Hollywood. His aggressive and independent methods as a filmmaker are what both brought him his early success and later… Read more »
Labyrinth
By 1983 David Bowie had already achieved international stardom. Between 1976 and 1983 Bowie had released his most critically acclaimed and influential albums: Station To Station (1976), Low (1977), “Heroes”… Read more »
Surviving Desire
Surviving Desire (1992) deals with the intelligentsia, and the inherent problems of a relationship between an older man and a younger woman. However, Hartley’s older man, Jude (Martin Donovan), isn’t so… Read more »
The Dark Knight Rises
Who is Catwoman? In the Batman Comics, she’s a femme fatale, wielding a whip, always changing allegiances, yet always flirting with her romantic interest that would otherwise be her nemesis…. Read more »
Show Boat
Born on September 9th, 1894, Arthur Freed would be destined to lead one of the most remarkable lives in Hollywood history. For a decade spanning 1929 to 1939, Freed worked… Read more »
