Kamikaze ’89
Wolf Gremm’s masterful ode to Rainer Werner Fassbinder showed just once on June 8th at International House as part of a new national re-release of a restored print. Despite my… Read more »
Wolf Gremm’s masterful ode to Rainer Werner Fassbinder showed just once on June 8th at International House as part of a new national re-release of a restored print. Despite my… Read more »
Queer women are one of the most highly codified social demographics to have ever existed on film. In comparison to their male counterparts, the lesbian image is years behind in… Read more »
In 1987, after working in America for several years, Wim Wenders returned to West Germany, more specifically West Berlin, to make his film Wings Of Desire (1987). Wings Of Desire is, however,… Read more »
Back in 2011 I had a forty-five minute telephone conversation with director Paul Morrissey. I was ecstatic beyond belief, Morrissey being one of my cinematic heroes, a hero who has… Read more »
White Dog follows Judy, a struggling actress who hits a white dog with her car. When she is unable to find the owner, Judy adopts the animal, which in turn… Read more »
La vie est un roman (1983) opens in 1914, just before the outbreak of WWI. Count Forbek (Ruggero Raimondi) has assembled his closest friends, a collective of France’s most esteemed… Read more »
Nicolas Roeg’s death at age 90 can’t really be called a surprise, but the loss is still great. Personally, Roeg was one of my first “filmmaker heroes”. The first DVD… Read more »
The production team of Golan-Globus came from Israel with the intent of reviving America’s art house cinema in the early eighties. Though they managed to produce a handful of artful… Read more »
Alain Resnais is a difficult figure to place within the world of the cinema. He is most certainly an auteur, an intellectual, and a humanist all at once, imbuing his… Read more »
Abel Ferrara’s career, and more importantly his influence upon the American cinema, has almost exclusively been within the vernacular of the genre film. Most consistently, he has worked within the… Read more »