Wings Of Desire
In 1987, after working in America for several years, Wim Wenders returned to West Germany, more specifically West Berlin, to make his film Wings Of Desire (1987). Wings Of Desire is, however,… Read more »
First Man
First Man, Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to La La Land (2016), is diametrically opposed to both the musical genre and fantastique escapism in general. First Man (2018) is a film about… Read more »
Film: The Front Line, 1983
In 1983 Jonathan Rosenbaum published a collection of essays profiling the work of some of cinema’s greatest artists of the avant-garde in his Film: The Front Line 1983. In this publication… Read more »
Two From The Audio Artkive
In 2006 Tony Conrad’s Audio Artkive released two albums on The Table Of Elements label. One consists of only a single 67 minute long track of Tony Conrad playing the… Read more »
Beethoven’s Nephew
Back in 2011 I had a forty-five minute telephone conversation with director Paul Morrissey. I was ecstatic beyond belief, Morrissey being one of my cinematic heroes, a hero who has… Read more »
A Simple Favor
What is Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor (2018) about? I can only say for certain that A Simple Favor is interested in female relationships. For a film with so much… Read more »
The Cinema Of Transgression
The films of the American avant-garde or Underground have always functioned as a cinema of opposition, a calculated subversion of the Hollywood mainstream and the cinematic devices it employed or… Read more »
Leaving Las Vegas
Looking back at all the awards Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue either won or were nominated for in 1995 for Mike Figgis’ Leaving Las Vegas, one would assume that the film… Read more »
Diabolique
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Diabolique is a thriller released in 1955. That said it is almost always compared to the works of Hitchcock, with whom its history is explicitly intertwined. But upon a few… Read more »
Sebastiane
Derek Jarman’s first feature, co-directed by Paul Humfress, was released in 1976 with the rating “X”. The film was Sebastiane, and it told the story of St. Sebastiane’s martyrdom in… Read more »
