Let The Fire Burn
Jason Osder’s Let The Fire Burn (2013) is undermined by the subtextual void created by Osder’s lack of commitment to explaining to his audience the very nature of MOVE, the supposed… Read more »
Red Rock West
Film Noir is a term created by critics to designate a particular kind of film made in Hollywood after WWII. Film Noir refers to crime films or thrillers that utilize… Read more »
Lightning Over Water
Wim Wenders is a filmmaker who has made some of the best films about the art of filmmaking. I’m speaking of Room 666, Tokyo-Ga, and Lightning Over Water. The first… Read more »
Clara Bow: Runnin’ Wild
Roughly a month ago it was my good fortune to inherit a collection of about 120 books on the subject of Hollywood during its Golden Age between 1915 and 1960…. Read more »
Berlin Alexanderplatz: Epilogue
Produced between 1979 and 1980, Berlin Alexanderplatz is Fassbinder’s masterpiece, and an epic in scope beyond the work of any other film in his prolific career. Shot by Xavier Schwarzenberger… Read more »
The Swimmer
Last Friday I had tea with my buddy Neal to discuss programming a series of Czech New Wave films. Chatting away, two content cinephiles, the subject of Frank Perry came… Read more »
Logan
“This repression of the ‘non-serious’ aspects of pleasure, of a discourse of fun, is not, of course, a total exclusion. Notions of distraction, diversion, and entertainment have appeared with regularity… Read more »
The Strange Woman
I didn’t really immerse myself in the work of Edgar G. Ulmer till late in 2012 after reading Todd McCarthy’s indispensable The Kings Of The Bs. This was the fourth… Read more »
Bathing Beauty
I have no clue when I first saw Bathing Beauty (1944). It had to have been after Albert Lamorisse’s The Red Balloon but around the same time as Robert Siodmak’s… Read more »
Der Fangschuss
In 1976, Volker Schlondorff released his twelfth film, Der Fangschuss. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Marguerite Yourcenar, written in 1939. Regular Schlondorff collaborators… Read more »
