Vinyl
Andy Warhol’s film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange,Vinyl (1965), opens in a close-up just like Stanley Kubrick’s version. Vinyl begins with Gerald Malanga’s face filling the screen…. Read more »
Andy Warhol’s film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ novel A Clockwork Orange,Vinyl (1965), opens in a close-up just like Stanley Kubrick’s version. Vinyl begins with Gerald Malanga’s face filling the screen…. Read more »
Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation (1962) was a staple of my childhood. It became a sort of unspoken tradition that this was the movie we’d watch when we got home… Read more »
Author Jun’ichirō Tanizaki and director Yasuzo Masumura were frequent collaborators in a sense; the latter making a number of films based on the former’s novels, many of which deal with either… Read more »
The best science fiction authors (Stanislaw Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, Theodore Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, etc.) all view the genre as a means of investigating and reckoning… Read more »
Quentin Lawrence directed Cash On Demand (1961) and a couple of other films for Hammer Studios, making a specialty of thrillers throughout his long career. Cash On Demand benefits tremendously… Read more »
An anonymously made film about four trans women, Queens At Heart (1967) survives today due to the efforts of the UCLA film archive. It’s an exploitative documentary that’s too sensitive… Read more »
Reality and dreams are interchangeable in this landscape where even news of a violent murder takes on a kind of poetic realism. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) is literally Demy’s… Read more »
When Dr. Eric Williams (Roberto Cañedo) and his assistant Igor (Carlos Suárez) begin to realize their evil scheme of creating hundreds of fish-men with which to rule the oceans of… Read more »
Matango (1963), also known as Attack Of The Mushroom People in the U.S., is another foray into horror by the Japanese master Ishirō Honda. Like so many of Toho’s productions… Read more »
There’s always been a shortage of films coming out of Hollywood about female camaraderie. Even rarer are films about the friendships between women that don’t have some iteration of the… Read more »