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  • Rebecca

    Costume Drama · Drama · Horror · Literature and Film · Women in Film

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    “The Shadow and the Ghost”: The Spirit of Hitchcock and Rebecca’s Suspicions of Succession

    • January 23, 2021

    In transposing Rebecca, notice how Hitchcock’s camera attends to shadows – bisecting faces and bruising frames – to approximate du Maurier’s disorienting syntax and looming dread. Or watch as his[…]

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    A Brief History of Slip and Failure: Cyberpunk and the Headroom for Nostalgia in Back to the Future

    • January 18, 2021

    In refusing to be neither something different nor more of the same, Back to the Future II’s re-filming technique within the original via new VistaGlide technology offered – rather –[…]

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    The Black Rose in the Garden: A Second Look at The Babadook

    • January 11, 2021

    Amelia has cultivated a fearful respect of Mr. Babadook. She is in control of him and feeds him worms from her garden. Instead of trying to exorcise the demon, she[…]

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    Trevor Howard: “The World Doesn’t Make Any Heroes”

    • January 7, 2021

    ” In between the idealized lover and the cantankerous old goat lay a handful of roles in which Howard managed to simultaneously embody and undermine the archetypal Englishman.”

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Carl Sukenick

Directors · Documentaries · Experimental & Underground · Exploitation & Erotica · Memoir · Outsiders

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Obscene and Obscure Longings: The Video Diaries of George Kuchar and Carl J. Sukenick

  • January 2, 2021

As much as there remains some graspable appeal to each man’s video work – George’s comic personality and the humorous reckoning with his own legacy, and Carl’s peculiar brand of[…]

Dana Andrews

Actors & Personalities

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Dana Andrews: The Forties Hero and His Shadow

  • January 1, 2021

“It’s not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I’ve always hidden it in my personal life.”

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“From Slumdog to Heartthrob”: Dev Patel’s Journey in Hollywood So Far

  • December 27, 2020

The next step for a Hollywood that is coming to see the true potential of Dev Patel’s abilities is to let him shine in his own right, and in his[…]

Babe

Activist & Political · Animals · Drama

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Twenty-Five Years Later, Babe Is More Relevant Than Ever

  • December 22, 2020

Although Babe was released a quarter-century ago, its critique of animal agriculture remains timely. Babe celebrates the “unprejudiced heart” of its eponymous piggy hero, who narrowly escapes becoming Christmas dinner[…]

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Books: John Alton: Essays on the Cinematographer’s Art and Craft

  • December 19, 2020

Leon Lewis (Ed.), John Alton: Essays on the Cinematographer’s Art and Craft (McFarland, 2020)  * * * Widely regarded as epitomizing the visual style of high film noir as it[…]

Directors · Writers & Critics

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5 Greatest Films Never Made: From Gifford/Coppola to Wurlitzer to Faulkner/Orwell

  • December 14, 2020

By all accounts The Drop Edge of Yonder, or Zebulon as the script was titled, was truly one-of-a-kind, going way beyond the acid-western genre Wurlitzer helped create. In part we[…]

Tatsuya Nakadai

Actors & Personalities · Asian

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Japanese Cinema’s Uncommon Man: Tatsuya Nakadai’s Dissidents, Outcasts, and Shadow Warriors

  • December 13, 2020

“Like Hollywood’s new postwar men, he offered a multifaceted, ambivalent masculinity far from monolithic wartime ideals.”

Dance Little Lady.

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Father’s Fine, Grandma Too: And When You Fall Down, So Are You (On Mandy, Dance Little Lady, and The Farewell)

  • December 7, 2020

In fact, until the appearance of this relatively unsung Russian actress, all of the above might easily have remained permanently stuck at the level of “stodgy melodrama.” Instead, we suddenly[…]

Night of the Living Dead

Dreams · Horror

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Dreams and the Human Material in Night of the Living Dead

  • December 2, 2020

Dawn brings the forces of reason and order (ironic, in that the posse clearing away the few remaining dead are little more than trigger-happy, thrill-seeking rednecks, not the wise and[…]

Fredric March

Activist & Political · African American · Societal Trends

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A Star Is Shorn: Thanks to Woefully Underinformed Campus Activists, Acting Legend, Badger Alum, and Civil Rights Champion Fredric March Is Suddenly “Off Wisconsin”

  • November 25, 2020

Fredric March stands alongside four other mid-century drum majors for civil rights during the 1943 national radio broadcast of “Race-Relations Sunday.” Left to right: concert soprano Dorothy Maynor, actor Canada[…]

character actors

Actors & Personalities · Books · Characters · Hollywood

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Books: Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age, by David Lazar

  • November 19, 2020

David Lazar, Celeste Holm Syndrome: On Character Actors from Hollywood’s Golden Age (Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, October 2020) * * * I’d have to say that the best definition[…]

film class Kabul

Activist & Political · Hollywood · Teaching · War · Women in Film

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Ingeworthy: Teaching William Inge in Kabul

  • November 14, 2020

It is in the American women’s picture that, in my classroom at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, I’m able to lead students in a global reading of women’s[…]

Greene Bazin

Drama · Theory · Writers & Critics

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André Bazin and Graham Greene (and Alfred Hitchcock): Some Points of Contact

  • November 9, 2020

Bazin would always harbor reservations about The Third Man, but, due to that film, Greene’s presence would continue to loom large in discussions of Orson Welles, who was, of course,[…]

Chinatown

Books · Hollywood · Neo-Noir

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Books: The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

  • November 6, 2020

Sam Wasson, The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (New York: Flatiron Books, 2020). * * * Sam Wasson’s The Big Goodbye tells the irresistible tale of[…]

Thinking of Ending

Absurdism · Drama

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I’m Thinking of Ending Things and Men Writing Women

  • November 2, 2020

I’m Thinking of Ending Things is, like so many stories, a story about a man masquerading as a story about a woman. Which ultimately makes me wonder why we need[…]

Barbara Rubin

Books · Directors · Documentaries · Experimental & Underground · Women in Film

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Her Incantatory Voice: Barbara Rubin and Christmas on Earth

  • October 27, 2020

From the same desert, toward the same dark sky, my tired eyes open on the silver star, forever; but the Three Wise Men never stir, the Kings of life, the[…]

Eraserhead

Experimental & Underground · Horror · Memoir

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Strangest Damn Things: Eraserhead in My Head

  • October 23, 2020

Our Eraserhead screening was naïve and unexpected and for me had lasting impact, because when art enters our heads uninvited, leaves traces after it’s flashed through our consciousness, jars the[…]

Kubrick Scorsese

Directors · Drama · Essays

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Troubling Mastery: Scorsese’s and Kubrick’s Psychosexual New York Odysseys

  • October 19, 2020

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position. – W. H. Auden, “Musée des Beaux-Arts” (1940) “It’s also a film I cherish[…]

Phil Solomon

Directors · Experimental & Underground · Memoir

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Adagio: Phil Solomon on His Life as an Artist

  • October 12, 2020

“I’ve always been interested in the idea of cinema and loss, the beautiful and poignant conjuring of human presence and its absence. It’s an illusion, we know that, and yet[…]

Scary Stories

Essays · Horror

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Born on a Meat Hook: On André Øvredal’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

  • October 8, 2020

“We grow up, but do we ever forget how afraid of ourselves we are?”  * * * The books parents protest about are the best at converting children into bookworms.[…]

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