A Child Is Waiting
John Cassavetes’ third feature film, A Child Is Waiting (1963), opens with one of the most heartbreaking scenes in American cinema. Ted Widdicombe (Steven Hill) has just brought his son… Read more »
John Cassavetes’ third feature film, A Child Is Waiting (1963), opens with one of the most heartbreaking scenes in American cinema. Ted Widdicombe (Steven Hill) has just brought his son… Read more »
Rote Lippen, Sadisterotica (1969) is Jesús Franco’s ultra campy send-up of the sixties’ spy thriller. This German-Spanish co-production feels like a parody of an episode of The Avengers but with… Read more »
Lucio Fulci’s Una sull’altra (1969) is a giallo picture that works as a sort of remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). In both films identity, on a conceptual level, is… Read more »
Joseph Losey’s film Modesty Blaise (1966) is the cinematic pinnacle of swinging London culture in the sixties. It’s a film that in turns is campy, reflexive, “mod”, satirical, and all… Read more »
Robert Hartford-Davis’ film Corruption (1968) is one of the most infamous shockers produced in Britain during the sixties. Peter Cushing plays a gifted surgeon, Sir John Rowan, who in a… Read more »
Mario Bava’s Blood and Black Lace (1964), or in Italian 6 donne per l’assassino, follows a series of brutal murders at the Christian Haute Couture. The villain hides behind a… Read more »
From the instant Scott Walker’s voice is heard as The Walker Brothers perform the title song during the opening credits it’s apparent that Deadlier Than The Male (1967) is an… Read more »
As the anti-war movement began to really take hold Richard Lester released his film How I Won The War (1967). How I Won The War wasn’t just an anti-war film,… Read more »
Alan Parker’s film Mississippi Burning (1988) is a film about hate. It offers viewers an endless spectacle of hatred and violence with only the illusion of nuance. Parker’s images of… Read more »
Curtis Harrington is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Hollywood. A forerunner in many respects to the New Queer cinema of the nineties, Harrington began his… Read more »