Public Affairs
Public Affairs (1983) is the only teaming of screenwriter Joyce Snyder and writer/director Henri Pachard. Each was an astute satirist and social commentator, and together they made what is probably… Read more »
The Northman
With his film The Northman (2022), filmmaker Robert Eggers returns to the folkloric roots of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Eggers revels in the physical hardships and bloody violence of the ninth… Read more »
Sweet Sugar
Michel Levesque followed up the notorious Werewolves On Wheels (1971) with the women-in-prison exploitation classic Sweet Sugar (1972). Sweet Sugar was made at the height of the genre’s popularity and,… Read more »
The Blood Of Jesus
Spencer Williams made his second feature, The Blood Of Jesus (1941), for a measly five-thousand dollars. Williams, like many Black American filmmakers, had to make his film on the fringes… Read more »
Siberia
With Siberia (2020) renegade auteur Abel Ferrara returns too familiar ground. The director continues to obsess over the means by which regret and guilt can fracture the human spirit. Clint… Read more »
In Search Of Darkness
David A. Weiner’s In Search Of Darkness (2019) is a film about American horror films made in the eighties. Over the course of a 264 minute runtime, Weiner combines clips… Read more »
Gosti iz galaksije
Gosti iz galaksije (1981) is a darkly humorous science-fiction film that operates as an allegory for the dangers of living in one’s own imagination. Writer and director Dušan Vukotić takes… Read more »
Hiruko The Goblin
The iconoclast Shinya Tsukamoto followed his avant-garde masterpiece Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) with the mainstream horror-comedy Hiruko The Goblin (1991). While Tsukamoto retains some of his trademark body-horror elements… Read more »
Rancho Deluxe
Frank Perry’s film Rancho Deluxe (1975) is a dry character driven comedy that looks at the fallout of American Manifest Destiny in the mid-twentieth century. It’s a film where cattle… Read more »
Sherlock Jr.
There are some films that have been so celebrated and so often written about that it is difficult to imagine that one could have anything new to say. However, only… Read more »
