Mr. Freedom
William Klein came to film from the world of fashion. He had garnered acclaim for both his photographic essays on urban environments and his fashion spreads in numerous magazines long… Read more »
Introducing Tony Conrad
This review was originally published in the Spring of 2019. The Philadelphia Institute Of Contemporary Art (ICA) in coordination with the Lightbox Film Center has curated a retrospective of Tony… Read more »
Joker
I saw Todd Phillips’ film Joker (2019) on the same day that Martin Scorsese’s comments on the Marvel/Disney films really started to gain momentum in the press as celebrities began… Read more »
Claudio Gizzi On Vinyl
In April, 2015, Dagored, a record label based out of Florence Italy, re-issued in limited editions the soundtracks of two Paul Morrissey features, Blood For Dracula (1974) and Flesh For… Read more »
Le Brasier Ardent
When the world gets to a point where it no longer expects to be hit into excitement or tickled into guffaws by every film, when speed isn’t the test of… Read more »
American Spectacle
This piece was originally written in March 2014. Jean-Luc Godard has said that the cinema died when filmmakers failed to show the Holocaust. Godard has also stated that the Americanization… Read more »
Vivre sa Vie
Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth film, Vivre Sa Vie (1962), is a character study manifested in a twelve part tableaux. Anna Karina (Godard’s then wife and muse) plays the lead, Nana, a… Read more »
Sleepless In Seattle
Filmmaker Jean-Marie Straub once said “there is no such thing as film history”. Films only really exist as we watch them, as we play back the footage. If there is… Read more »
Half Nelson
I decided to repost this short review after screening this film in my class. This piece originally appeared in 2012. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden have been collaborating on films… Read more »
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Some years ago I bought my first DVD from Movies Unlimited in Northeast Philadelphia. Last summer I had the good fortune to see that same film on the big screen… Read more »
