Hard, Fast & Beautiful
Ida Lupino’s film Hard, Fast & Beautiful (1951) was her third outing in the director’s chair. The film was produced by Lupino’s production company The Filmmakers and distributed by RKO… Read more »
Summer School Teachers
Summer School Teachers (1974) was the second film Barbara Peeters wrote and directed for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. As the title suggests, the film follows the love lives of… Read more »
Tart
Christina Wayne’s film Tart (2001) followed the trend of youth marketed films that looked to emulate Roger Kumble’s Cruel Intentions (1999). While none of these films matched the wit or… Read more »
Film About A Woman Who…
In the very first scene of Film About A Woman Who… (1974) Yvonne Rainer confronts her viewer with the methodology of cinematic spectatorship and how she intends to manipulate those… Read more »
The Peacemaker
The Peacemaker (1997) opens with the theft of ten nuclear warheads from a moving train by a rogue Russian general. To disguise the theft, the train is later derailed and… Read more »
Männer…
Männer… (1985) opens with advertising executive Julius Armbrust (Heiner Lauterbach) discovering that his wife Paula (Ulrike Kriener) has been having an affair with a graphic artist named Stefan (Uwe Ochsenknecht)… Read more »
Is It College Yet?
Created by Susie Lewis and Glenn Eichler as a spin-off of Beavis and Butt-Head, Daria (1997-2002) was one of the seminal television shows of the late nineties. Daria, with its… Read more »
Vivre ensemble
In 1973 Anna Karina released her directorial debut Vivre ensemble. To this day audiences go into Vivre ensemble expecting something like Made In U.S.A. (1966) or Bande à part (1964),… Read more »
Rita la zanzara
Lina Wertmüller’s third feature film, Rita la zanzara (1966), was a “musicarello” picture starring Yé-yé sensation Rita Pavone. Wertmüller’s would-be muse Giancarlo Giannini makes his leading man debut as the… Read more »
Manny & Lo
Lisa Krueger’s Manny & Lo (1996) is an underrated gem of the independent film movement of the nineties. Scarlett Johansson, who plays the titular Manny, was only twelve when the… Read more »
