In 1962, film journalist turned filmmaker, Eric Rohmer, completed his second film inspired by F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927), Suzanne’s Career. Produced by Barbet Schroeder (already an established cinematic force in France), Suzanne’s Career… Read more »
The Masque Of The Red Death (1964) is probably Roger Corman’s most polished film, and certainly the best of the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations that he made with the iconic… Read more »
In the materials accompanying Shout! Factory’s blu-ray release of The House That Screamed (1969) they suggest that this film was a major influence on Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977). I personally… Read more »
I have always been fascinated with Russian Wonder Tales by Post Wheeler. Wheeler’s book is a collection of Russian and Slavic folk tales set down on paper from what was… Read more »
The Black Torment (1964) is a British horror film that really deserved its release on Kino Lorber’s Redemption label. It may be a flawed film, but it represents all of… Read more »
I first got into Hammer Films when I was roughly thirteen years old. I used to rent the Anchor Bay DVD releases from Movies Unlimited. Since then, I have been… Read more »
Seth Holt’s The Nanny (1965) is a really pleasant surprise from Hammer Studios. It’s a wonderfully atmospheric thriller whose central plot twist revolves around the emotional conflict between two generations… Read more »
In 1964, filmmaker and poet Ron Rice completed his fourth film Chumlum. Rice had met avant-garde filmmaker Jack Smith the previous year, having cast the director in The Queen Of… Read more »
In the late sixties and early seventies “road movies” became a popular narrative form with the success of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider (1969). On an international scale, filmmakers embraced the… Read more »
Chris Marker’s The Sixth Side Of The Pentagon (1968) captures the fervor of the Yippies’ protest of the Vietnam war at the Pentagon on October 7th, 1967. This non-violent protest… Read more »