Cat People
As director Paul Schrader points out in an interview on the Shout! Factory release of his film Cat People (1982) that a majority of his films, which he either wrote and… Read more »
As director Paul Schrader points out in an interview on the Shout! Factory release of his film Cat People (1982) that a majority of his films, which he either wrote and… Read more »
I don’t know what it is about American films made in the 1980s, but no other era seems to capture the essence of Autumn in the same way. The Autumn… Read more »
If you grew up watching Dunston Checks In (1996) then Link (1986), the former’s disturbed elder cousin, is probably much more terrifying. And though Link features some awesome dialogue, nothing… Read more »
In 1984, Bob Woodward published his much acclaimed biography of actor John Belushi titled Wired: The Short Life And Fast Times Of John Belushi. The life Belushi lead stands as a… Read more »
An Australian production, The Coca-Cola Kid (1985) represents Dušan Makavejev’s most traditionally narrative film since Love Affair, or the Case Of The Missing Switchboard Operator (1968) as well as the director’s first… Read more »
In Fritz Kiersch’s Tuff Turf (1985), James Spader’s character Morgan is relentlessly terrorized by gang leader Nick (Paul Mones), when Nick’s girlfriend Richie (Kim Richards) begins to fall for Spader…. Read more »
My friend Neal and I are both avid cinephiles. Last week we were directing our snobbery to a film I can’t even remember anymore, but I think Tom Cruise was… Read more »
Produced between 1979 and 1980, Berlin Alexanderplatz is Fassbinder’s masterpiece, and an epic in scope beyond the work of any other film in his prolific career. Shot by Xavier Schwarzenberger… Read more »
Guilt and regret are two emotions that I have personally always found overwhelming, primarily because they are responsible for so much of my character. It is those two emotions that… Read more »
Nicolas Roeg is famous for the shot compositions in his films, filling the frame with tension and subversive sexual anxiety. In 1988, Roeg made Track 29 with George Harrison’s Handmade Films. The cast… Read more »