Wrapped In Plastic
Twin Peaks (1990-91), the brainchild of creators Mark Frost and David Lynch, has, in the last decade, risen above cult status. In part this is due to Lynch’s Oscar nominated… Read more »
Katzelmacher
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most infamous play, Garbage, The City, & Death (1975), is a kind of revisionist cabaret assault on the audience. By that point, Fassbinder had extended his creative… Read more »
Imagine
John Lennon is known to most as the leader of The Beatles. In addition to being a songwriter, Lennon was a poet, a humorist, an illustrator and play-write. However, with his… Read more »
Lilith
Robert Rossen is best known for having written and directed All The King’s Men, Alexander The Great and The Hustler. But little is written of his final feature, the intimate… Read more »
The City Of Lost Children
Here is a piece I wrote for the Cinematheque Internationale of Philadelphia in 2011. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro completed and released their film The City Of Lost Children in… Read more »
Agony
Shot between 1973 and 1975, and released in 1982, Elem Klimov’s film of the life of Grigori Rasputin, titled Agony, is one of the watershed films with regard to the… Read more »
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bryan Singer’s film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) is only fun if you are a fan of Queen. The film is a biopic of the late Freddie Mercury that is more invested… Read more »
The Flame & The Arrow
By 1950, Jacques Tourneur had made a name for himself as one of the most versatile and economic of filmmakers working in Hollywood. He had helmed such acclaimed titles as… Read more »
Szamanka Soundtrack
Andrzej Korzyński’s soundtracks for Andrzej Zulawski are one of the key ingredients to the films that they collaborated on, while also being entirely listenable on their own, removed from the… Read more »
Spring Breakers
As the title of Harmony Korine’s latest film suggests, Spring Breakers (2012), the filmmaker’s interests have shifted dramatically from realism to commercialism. The title alone suggests that Korine has decided… Read more »
