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I, Fatty
There is no shortage of biographies and memoirs of the men and women who have shaped the cinema. Ray Carney’s work on John Cassavetes is exhaustive and all encompassing, Richard… Read more »
There is no shortage of biographies and memoirs of the men and women who have shaped the cinema. Ray Carney’s work on John Cassavetes is exhaustive and all encompassing, Richard… Read more »
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s In A Year With 13 Moons (1978) tells the story Elvira (Volker Spengler), a trans woman in love with a man who “can never love anyone”, Anton… Read more »
When The Walt Disney Company released Sister Act (1992) through Touchstone Pictures they sold the film as a family comedy and targeted parents with children between the ages of 8… Read more »
A lot of noise is made about the upcoming film adaptation of a comic book today. Comics and movies, having always shared many aesthetic qualities, seem to have entered into… Read more »
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster (2016) is one of the darkest films that I have seen this year. In terms of its concept and narrative structure Lanthimos’ film is clearly indebted… Read more »
Director Fred Zinnemann is one of a handful of German directors, including Billy Wilder, Douglas Sirk and Robert Siodmak, who relocated to Hollywood in the thirties. In terms of political… Read more »
When you are a little boy like I was when I saw The Red Balloon (1956) for the first time it has an indescribable effect on you. Sure a film… Read more »
Chris Marker’s The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon (1968) captures the fervor of the Yippies’ protest of the Vietnam war at the Pentagon on October 7th, 1967. This non-violent protest… Read more »
“Anyone with the most rudimentary literary training should be struck by the perverse backwardness of the adaptation-as-betrayal approach: The study of adaptation is clearly a form of source study and… Read more »
In translating Melville’s novel onto film Carax has found his cinematic footing somewhere between Robert Bresson and André Téchiné. What exploitative qualities that exist in Pola X (1999) simply serve to better… Read more »