Penda’s Fen
Filmmaker Alan Clarke’s reputation was built on works known for their stark realism. Clarke’s films are typified as emotionally violent character portraits that are critical of British institutions. Films like… Read more »
Filmmaker Alan Clarke’s reputation was built on works known for their stark realism. Clarke’s films are typified as emotionally violent character portraits that are critical of British institutions. Films like… Read more »
Stay Hungry (1976) is director Bob Rafelson at his weirdest. At one point he juxtaposes the Mr. Universe contest with a sexual assault as if the masculinist bravura of bodybuilding… Read more »
Speaking to Lillian Ross, John Huston once described the film industry as “A closed-in, tight, frantically inbred and frantically competitive jungle”. It’s an apt description that could easily be applied… Read more »
With his film Last Embrace (1979) Jonathan Demme tackles the aesthetic idiom of Alfred Hitchcock and Brian De Palma with his own variation on Vertigo (1958). Demme’s film concerns a… Read more »
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »
Michael J. Murphy was nineteen years old the first time he adapted the twelfth century chivalric romance Tristan and Iseult. Murphy’s first Tristan & Iseult (1970) only exists in a… Read more »
Obsession (1976) is director Brian De Palma and writer Paul Schrader’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). The title suits the plot of the film, but it also addresses De… Read more »
What are the cheerleaders of Rambling University to do when their star football players are looking at another college? Why, they’ll follow them on their campus visit and sabotage it!… Read more »
In Keoma (1976) the past and the present share a space and characters can walk in and out of memories. In Keoma interiority exists in songs on the soundtrack to… Read more »
Violated! (1974) is a once thought lost exploitation film written, produced and directed by Albert Zugsmith. Before turning to directing exploitation films in the early sixties, Zugsmith had been a… Read more »