The Love Witch
Superficially, Anna Biller’s The Love Witch (2016) may seem like nothing more than a pastiche; some cross between Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and Terence Fisher’s The Devil Rides Out (1968)… Read more »
Maidstone
1969, Norman Mailer runs for mayor of New York City and loses. A few months later, Mailer journeys to the Hamptons with a film crew and entourage to produce his… Read more »
Johnny Staccato
If you are like me and you enjoy Frank Kane’s or Howard Norman’s gumshoe novels then you’ll probably get into Johnny Staccato. Otherwise, Johnny Staccato is pretty unremarkable as a… Read more »
Over The Top
The production team of Golan-Globus came from Israel with the intent of reviving America’s art house cinema in the early eighties. Though they managed to produce a handful of artful… Read more »
Mélo
Alain Resnais is a difficult figure to place within the world of the cinema. He is most certainly an auteur, an intellectual, and a humanist all at once, imbuing his… Read more »
Whity
“I love you. Now I know I can finish this film!”-R.W. Fassbinder to production manager Peter Berling on the set of Whity. Whity (1970) is a first in many respects… Read more »
It
When I was growing up our family doctor had something of an obsession with clowns. All over his office were little oil paintings of clowns, dolls of clowns, decorative plates… Read more »
Fear City
Abel Ferrara’s career, and more importantly his influence upon the American cinema, has almost exclusively been within the vernacular of the genre film. Most consistently, he has worked within the… Read more »
Wittgenstein, Bazin, & Godard
Reality: The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them: “he refuses to face reality”. – Webster’s English… Read more »
Cruising
Critics and the gay community were quick to either dismiss or condemn William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) during its initial release. But, a contemporary reading, post-eighties and the New Queer Cinema… Read more »
