Princess Yang Kwei Fei
I was in ninth grade when I first saw this film. It was late Spring, the second week in a row that my father, brother, and I all drove down… Read more »
Vengeance Valley
“The Skipper” was how I knew Burt Lancaster as a kid. His real name was unmanageable to a three year old. He was just “The Skipper” because that’s what his… Read more »
A Quiet Passion
I saw Terence Davies’ film A Quiet Passion (2016) the other day. It was the most thoroughly engaging cinematic experience I have had in a theater in the last year…. Read more »
Magnificent Obsession
I don’t believe this is Douglas Sirk’s best film. Still, it’s my favorite. It probably has something to do with my background in Catholicism (CCD every Tuesday night). Films that… Read more »
Flesh
Kenny used to manage TLA video back before it shut its doors forever in 2010. In 2006 he held onto copies of Flesh, Trash and Heat for me, for about… Read more »
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Guilt and regret are two emotions that I have personally always found overwhelming, primarily because they are responsible for so much of my character. It is those two emotions that… Read more »
Reconstructed In Stillness
“I read, some days past, that the man who ordered the erection of the almost infinite wall of China was that first Emperor, Shih Huang Ti, who also decreed that… Read more »
Boxing Helena
Jennifer Chambers Lynch’s debut feature Boxing Helena (1993) has never been a popular film. It has found some longevity among the fans of her father’s films, but has, for all… Read more »
Gunfight At The O.K. Corral
“We’re playing two pre-Freudian fags. We’re in love with each other and we don’t know how to express ourselves that way-we just kind of look at each other and grunt… Read more »
Vengeance Is Mine
There are no set parameters that define how inclusive or inconclusive the term “New Wave” is. In France, the New Wave occurred outside of the established studio system independently; in… Read more »
