Stay Hungry
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 »
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 »
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 »
Frank Perry’s film Rancho Deluxe (1975) is a dry character driven comedy that looks at the fallout of American Manifest Destiny in the mid-twentieth century. It’s a film where cattle… Read more »
Starcrash (1978) is probably exactly what one would expect from a Roger Corman produced Star Wars (1977) knock-off; it’s cheap, campy, gaudy, and hilarious. Since I first saw this film… 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 »
Critics and the gay community were quick to either dismiss or condemn William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) during its initial release. But, a contemporary reading, post-eighties and the New Queer Cinema… Read more »