Lighting Over Braddock: A Rust Bowl Fantasy
I grew up when the last steel mills in the Pittsburgh area were closing down. With a majority of my extended family living in Pittsburgh it became a topic that… Read more »
Exotica
If you asked me what my favorite Atom Egoyan film was while I was attending film school I would have said Family Viewing (1987). At the time I was very… Read more »
Matka Joanna od Aniołów
Set in the seventeenth century, Matka Joanna od Aniołów (1961) tells the story of a convent in rural Poland overrun with demonic possessions. The Reverend Mother Joan of the Angels… Read more »
Django & Django
During the opening of Django & Django (2021) Quentin Tarantino reveals that after completing his film Inglourious Basterds (2009) he contemplated writing a book on the westerns of Sergio Corbucci…. Read more »
Party Girl
Party Girl (1958) combines the gritty truths of a showgirl’s life with the romantic garishness of MGM; it’s a balancing act between the unbridled machismo of the gangster drama and… Read more »
Cosmos
Cosmos (2015) was the last film that Andrzej Żuławski ever made. It’s clear from the start that Żuławski intends to bid adieu to the cinema. Cosmos is full of self-referential… Read more »
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Allan Arkush’s film Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979) is a deeply felt, autobiographical expression by the filmmaker within the idiom of early sixties teeny bopper rock musicals. Arkush drew… Read more »
Fury
Fury (1936) was Fritz Lang’s first American feature film after fleeing Nazi Germany. The film is a not so subtle indictment by Lang of the German people’s embrace of Hitler…. Read more »
Rubin & Ed
For a very long time the only way to own Rubin & Ed (1991) was on VHS. For the better part of my life I tried to locate this indie… Read more »
La seduzione
La seduzione (1973) sees Italian auteur Fernando Di Leo moving outside of the confines of his beloved poliziotteschi and giallo genres to try his hand at the erotic drama. The… Read more »
