The Last Movie
“Everybody wants a piece of your birthday cake/Fingers in the frosting, everybody wants to take/if you give an arm you can bet they’re gonna take a leg/living on this world… Read more »
Tag: 1970s
The Niklashausen Journey
As is often observed, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s filmography, consisting of forty feature films, makes it difficult to critically appraise all of his films. Many times films are either over looked… Read more »
The Man Who Fell To Earth
Some years ago I bought my first DVD from Movies Unlimited in Northeast Philadelphia. Last summer I had the good fortune to see that same film on the big screen… Read more »
(nostalgia)
It’s interesting to consider how the depiction of memory has changed since the 19th century. Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life Of Charlotte Bronte, James Boswell’s The Life Of Samuel Johnson and… Read more »
Real Life
Consider the films of Woody Allen; he is a filmmaker who expresses, in his efforts toward self-awareness, the importance of his own intellectual credentials and his own filmic knowledge in… Read more »
Sebastiane
Derek Jarman’s first feature, co-directed by Paul Humfress, was released in 1976 with the rating “X”. The film was Sebastiane, and it told the story of St. Sebastiane’s martyrdom in… Read more »
Gypsies Are Found Near Heaven
Even today there still remains a relative void of criticism surrounding latter day Soviet Cinema available in English. For the most part critical discussions of Russian cinema during the late… Read more »
1900
Bernardo Bertolucci’s death so soon after Nicolas Roeg’s clearly signified the passing of an era of filmmaking. 1900 was the first Bertolucci film that I ever saw. I was given… Read more »
Maidstone
1969, Norman Mailer runs for mayor of New York City and loses. A few months later, Mailer journeys to the Hamptons with a film crew and entourage to produce his… Read more »
Whity
“I love you. Now I know I can finish this film!”-R.W. Fassbinder to production manager Peter Berling on the set of Whity. Whity (1970) is a first in many respects… Read more »
