Fando Y Lis
Intuition is responsible for a majority of the most fascinating works of art ever created. Throughout the ages artists have made decisions concerning their work in direct response to their… Read more »
Intuition is responsible for a majority of the most fascinating works of art ever created. Throughout the ages artists have made decisions concerning their work in direct response to their… Read more »
I am not going to comment on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Bleu in the greater context of Les Trois Couleurs. I prefer to assess one film at a time as a stand alone piece… Read more »
“Give a man a free hand and he’ll try to put it all over you.”-Raoul Walsh Raoul Walsh is one of the big names in studio-era Westerns, often appearing alongside… Read more »
Peter Watkins made a career out of deconstructing genres, employing reflexive tactics, advocating a freer media, and reinterpreting film language with a number of groundbreaking and epically experimental films. In… Read more »
Rendez-vous (1986) is relatively early in both Juliette Binoche and Andre Téchiné’s careers. Binoche had yet to develop the kind of kinetic energy she would while working with Leos Carax… Read more »
The allure of Joel and Ethan Cohen’s films elude me. To me, they are akin to Steven Spielberg, but for “clever” people. Their 2016 homage to big studio Hollywood, Hail,… Read more »
Foxfire (1996) is one of those rare films about teenagers that manages to imbue a well worn genre with heart and social relevance. The film is ostensibly an adaptation of… Read more »
On the surface Edge Of The City (1957) may appear to be just another “white liberal” Hollywood production from the fifties but from the vantage point of 2020, and in… Read more »
In the early seventies, John Milius adapted Joseph Conrad’s Heart Of Darkness into the screenplay that would famously be made into Apocalypse Now (1979). Twelve years after the theatrical release of Apocalypse Now, Fax… Read more »
An impressive release from the re-issue frenzy of the late 2000s is the boxed set The Lucifer Rising Suite: The Music Of Bobby Beausoleil. Released by The Ajna Offensive in 2009… Read more »