The Saragossa Manuscript
There are as many variations upon narrative form as there are filmmakers. Few have been able to construct films that sustain a narrative whose story arcs and plot points are… Read more »
Star Trek
The Hollywood blockbuster has become a staple of the American movie-going experience. At Christmas or during the summer, studios unleash action-packed franchise films to audiences craving escape. Of all the… Read more »
Kamikaze ’89
Wolf Gremm’s masterful ode to Rainer Werner Fassbinder showed just once on June 8th at International House as part of a new national re-release of a restored print. Despite my… Read more »
Air Force One
This piece was written in 2015 while Donald Trump was still on the campaign trail. When Bonnie Tyler recorded Holding Out For A Hero for the film Footloose in 1984… Read more »
By Night With Torch & Spear
Joseph Cornell is best remembered for his work with assemblage, often manifesting these works in neat wooden boxes. Cornell’s fascination with the mundane every day objects of his pieces derive… Read more »
Movie Merchandise
I still have a teddy bear and I’m not ashamed or embarrassed about this sentimental attachment. I was two years old when I got my bear. He’s a “Red Octobear”;… Read more »
Histoire de Marie et Julien
There has been a lot of discussion around Rivette’s films lately, a kind of renewed interest or mass discovery by a new generation. Lincoln Center recently hosted a parallel retrospective… Read more »
Basquiat
Recently I received as a gift ANDY WARHOL Polaroids 1958-1987, published by Taschen. It is a marvelous presentation of Warhol’s work, quite fascinating when one begins to compare these original… Read more »
Mon Oncle
Last Friday I attended, with my brother, a screening of Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle (1958) at International House. What may appear to be an odd context to this screening, though… Read more »
Virgin Machine
Queer women are one of the most highly codified social demographics to have ever existed on film. In comparison to their male counterparts, the lesbian image is years behind in… Read more »
