Brand Upon The Brain
Guy Maddin has been one of the most unique voices in cinema for over two decades now. His films are a return to the primitivism of early surrealist filmmaking, succeeding… Read more »
Payday
Payday (1972) is one of those unique films produced in the early seventies by the big studios when they were looking to cash in on the youth audience and willing… Read more »
The Human Tornado
I love Rudy Ray Moore’s albums Eat Out More Often and The Moans & Groans Of Love, and this film is the best translation of his unique comic styling to… Read more »
Bluebeard
“John Carradine was a person, like Arthur Kennedy, I could hang onto. He knew what we were trying to do. Yah, it (Bluebeard) was a very lovely picture.”-Edgar G. Ulmer… Read more »
Les Miserables
This piece was originally written and published when Les Miserables was a new release. Tom Hooper’s latest film is an adaptation of the Broadway sensation Les Miserables. Les Miserables (2012)… Read more »
A Pair Of Book Reviews
On Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 two stories broke on my facebook feed. One was from indiewire that detailed David Lynch’s “retirement” from making films (2006’s Inland Empire is to be… Read more »
Lonesome Cowboys
“…a movie about a one-woman all-fag cowboy town“-Andy Warhol If the fifties represented a trend in subverting the Western genre by inverting the sexual politics of the day, enhancing the… Read more »
Harold & Maude
Harold & Maude (1971) is the first of three films directed by Hal Ashby in the first half of the seventies that deals with death. The explicit nature with which… Read more »
The Shallows
I saw Jaume Collet-Serra’s The Shallows (2016) at The Rave just off of UPenn’s campus with my friends Stephen and Virginia. Virginia chooses these films with our consent under the assumption… Read more »
A Hard Day’s Night
“We didn’t want to make a fuckin’ shitty pop movie. We didn’t even want to make a movie that was going to be bad.”-John Lennon, 1970 “Aesthetic experience exists. A… Read more »
