Cinephilia Today
Corporate Power applied to art produces a product which is on balance equal to Liberace stripped of his virility. – Norman Mailer, Some Dirt In The Talk Big corporations still… Read more »
Two Bowie Videos
Today it’s widely accepted that David Bowie was one of the most influential and talented artists in the twentieth century. Though it’s only recently that Bowie’s talent for creating and… Read more »
Beyond The Clouds
“Memories of movies are strand over strand with memories of my life. During the quarter of a century (roughly from 1935 to 1960) in which going to the movies was… Read more »
Freaks
Tod Browning’s beginnings account for a variety of the themes present in his film work. Browning began his career in entertainment working in circuses and sideshows before transitioning to vaudeville…. Read more »
Waco: The Rules Of Engagement
Over the summer I finally caught up with John and Drew Dowdle’s Waco (2018) and two things were immediately clear to me before the first episode was over. Firstly, the… Read more »
A Sensually Complex World
To hell with it. Don’t worry about the audience. Don’t worry about the people. Your job is to look. Your Vocation is to look, not to entertain. Entertaining comes second…. Read more »
True Lies
What James Cameron sets out to do with True Lies (1994), and does, is to make a genre film that is absolutely about its genre without ever being openly analytical… Read more »
The Rain People
In the late sixties and early seventies “road movies” became a popular narrative form with the success of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969). On an international scale, filmmakers embraced the… Read more »
Snowtown
I have often heard it said that violence is the product of fear derived from the lack of understanding. In the case of Justin Kurzel’s film Snowtown (2011), the violence… Read more »
The New Mutants
I don’t think that The New Mutants (2020) would be as much fun without the stellar performances of the films leads, nor do I think that New Mutants would exist… Read more »
