Husbands
For a long time this film was nearly impossible to see. John Cassavetes is my favorite filmmaker and for a long while this title eluded me. My friend Dan had… Read more »
The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty
In 1927 The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty was completed and released. Commissioned a year earlier by the Sovkino, The Fall Of The Romanov Dynasty was the first documentary film… Read more »
Blow The Man Down
Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy’s Blow The Man Down (2019) has a lot of great things going on in terms of technique. Every frame of this film evokes the… Read more »
Kiss The Blood Off My Hands
It is relatively easy today to discover a film. It is certainly far easier today than it was when I was growing up. Online streaming platforms such as the CriterionChannel… Read more »
Depicting Time
The concept of duration is essential to the artificial experience of time and memory in linear narrative filmmaking. Duration within the narrative, marking the passage of time, is signified most… Read more »
Straight To Hell
Just before directing his masterpiece Walker (1987) Alex Cox helmed this typically offbeat revival of the Spaghetti Western. The film is the product of a failed charity concert film Cox… Read more »
Les Bonnes Femmes
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) was a financial disappointment for Claude Charbol, though he considers it his best work of the era. Charbol’s film is dark and gloomy. It has captured… Read more »
Killing Melody
In 2010 Ethbo Records released their much lauded compilation album Killing Melody: Instrumental Music From Japanese Pinky Violence Movies. Ethbo’s release, similar to those of labels Finders Keepers and Crippled… Read more »
Streets Of Fire
Walter Hill has said that every film he’s made has been a western. I find it hard to argue with him on that score. Each film Hill has made carries… Read more »
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach’s award winning Marriage Story (2019) has been getting some backlash on social media after The Criterion Collection announced a director approved Blu-Ray release for July. One of the… Read more »
