Streets Of Fire
Walter Hill has said that every film he’s made has been a western. I find it hard to argue with him on that score. Each film Hill has made carries… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Parents
Bob Balaban doesn’t seem like someone who would be responsible for a film like the aptly named Parents (1989). Based on his roles in Seinfeld (1989-98), Close Encounters Of The… Read more »
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 »
Virgin Machine
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 »
Wings Of Desire
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 »
Beethoven’s Nephew
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
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
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 »
Eureka
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 »
Over The Top
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 »
