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    “No Viking Atheists”: The Northman’s Journey into Old World Belief

    • May 21, 2022

    Director Robert Eggers’s historical realities get a budget upgrade * * * With The Northman – already famous for its historical accuracy – writer-director Robert Eggers strives to give his[…]

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    Experimental & Underground · Horror · New Media · Societal Trends · Theory · Thrillers & Action · TV & Streaming

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    • May 17, 2022

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    Under Bloodless Skies: U2 Live at Red Rocks after 40

    • May 13, 2022

    Their performance isn’t marked by precision or technical mastery. It’s an onrush of unbridled enthusiasm all the way through – a frenzied, joyous romp that treats the show as if[…]

  • Her Sister's Secret

    Costume Drama · Designers · Drama · Fashion · Melodrama · Photo Essays · Romance

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    What Unwed Mothers Wore in 1946: Ulmer’s Her Sister’s Secret and Leisen’s To Each His Own

    • May 7, 2022

    In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. – Elsa Schiaparelli * * * Edgar G. Ulmer’s Her Sister’s Secret was released to theaters the same year as Mitchell Leisen’s To[…]

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Phantom of Liberty

Absurdism · Comedy · Drama · French Cinema · Mystery · Psychology

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Fathoming the Phantom: On Bunuel’s The Phantom of Liberty

  • April 30, 2022

The question becomes: is it worth trying to be free? Is the struggle fruitless? Why can’t we escape our servitude to the past, to society, to others? * * *[…]

Gaia

Eco · Horror · SF & Fantasy

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My New Life as Human Fertilizer: Jaco Bouwer’s Gaia (2021)

  • April 26, 2022

In his creation of a nonhuman cinematic world that mines horror from its confrontation of human fear of irrelevance and inadaptability, Bouwer ultimately suggests that survival in the era following[…]

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Zodiac

Books · Crime · Directors

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Book Review: David Fincher’s Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation

  • April 21, 2022

David Fincher’s Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation, edited by Matthew Sorrento and David Ryan. 259 pp. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2022. 2007 was a good year for American film, with[…]

Orson Welles

Directors · Sports

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The Shadow of Ernest Hemingway: On Crazy Weather, Orson Welles’s Unpublished 1973 Bullfighting Screenplay

  • April 15, 2022

The unfinished projects to which Welles devoted his energies began in July 1961. This was exactly twenty-five years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the year in which[…]

Actors & Personalities · French Cinema

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Delphine Seyrig: The Eternal Return

  • April 11, 2022

“Seyrig is capable of stopping an entire film with one decisive physical gesture, one smile, one glare, one sound from her smoky, murmuring voice.”

Actors & Personalities · Dance · Dancers · Hollywood · Music & Musicals

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Fred Astaire: Footsteps on the Sands of Time

  • April 6, 2022

He is transfixing just walking across the screen in his first movie, Dancing Lady (1933), where he partners Joan Crawford and looks as if he could fly if he wanted[…]

Family · Horror · Women in Film

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Home Wee Home – It’s Where the Horror Is: Miniature Models, Crime Scenes, and Toxic Femininity in Hereditary and Sharp Objects

  • March 30, 2022

A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk. – Sylvia Plath, “The Applicant” (Oct. 11, 1962) And they stuck me together[…]

James Caan

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“The Best Jewish Cowboy”: An Interview with James Caan

  • March 26, 2022

“Hard times will make a monkey eatred peppers.”

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Happy Happy Birthday Baby! Steve McQueen (b. 3/24/30): Fifty Years of the King of Cool

  • March 24, 2022

“Steve understood real people, particularly misfits, like nobody else.It was just the Hollywood brass he loathed.”

Sir Gawain

Historical & Epic · Medieval · Women in Film

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Medieval Arthuriana Was Always Scary, but Not in the Way You’d Think: On Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

  • March 21, 2022

The adaptation is successful not just in its understanding of how irreverent and illogical the narrative space of medieval romance is and always has been, but also in how it[…]

eyes without a face

Crime · Gothic · Horror · Melodrama · Photo Essays

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To Cut or Not to Cut? The POV Shots in Eyes Without a Face (and how they differ from those in Psycho)

  • March 16, 2022

Franju demonstrates how beauty hides pain, until pain becomes beautiful. * * * Georges Franju’s Les yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face is a reliably haunting film, a beautiful nightmare[…]

Spirited Away

Animation · Asian · Communism and Socialism

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Monster in the Machine: Monstrosity and Marxism in Spirited Away

  • March 11, 2022

The gold that No-Face dispenses to the workers later crumbles into a pile of dirt. Conjured from nothing, No-Face’s fabricated currency undermines the very system of profit that capitalism is[…]

Drama · Women in Film · Writers & Critics

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Novel into Film: Adapting Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter

  • March 7, 2022

We come to find out as viewers, whether we believe in Leda’s self-governing comportment at the beginning or not, that this task of motherhood is never-ending; each work demonstrates to[…]

Divine Horsemen

Experimental & Underground · Religion & Spirituality · Women in Film

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A White Darkness: Maya Deren in Haiti

  • March 3, 2022

The volition of these dancers is as clear as the sense that it is not their own. Deren mirrors this depersonalization masterfully; her camera splits a man between his reflections,[…]

Coen brothers

Absurdism · Comedy · Directors

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Caricature and Empathy in the Work of the Coen Brothers

  • February 27, 2022

Ethan and Joel Coen have shared writing, directing, and producing credits on their collaborations until their recent hiatus from working together. Here they are on location for their 2004 comedy[…]

Candyman

African American · Drama · Dreams · Horror · Urban Conflict

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Candymen: Slumming, Scarifying, and Gentrifying in 1992 and 2022

  • February 22, 2022

Good mornin’, Mr. Benson, I see you’re doin’ well. If I had me a shotgun I’d blow you straight to hell. – Robert Hunter/Jerry Garcia, “Candyman,” 1970 * * *[…]

Audriard

Books · French Cinema · Thrillers & Action

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Book Review: Gemma King, Jacques Audiard

  • February 18, 2022

Gemma King, Jacques Audiard. Manchester University Press, 2021. * * * In the first book-length exploration of the controversial director’s filmography, part of Manchester University Press’s French Film Directors series,[…]

Memoria

Experimental & Underground · Mystery · New Media

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Memoria: An Existential Wake-Up Call from Film’s Possible Future

  • February 14, 2022

Apichatpong’s film is the bang in the night that has the power to shock us out of convention, to help us open our eyes and ears to the rich and[…]

Unmaking of a College

Activist & Political · Documentaries · Education

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“To Know Is Not Enough”: On Amy Goldstein’s Documentary The Unmaking of a College

  • February 10, 2022

The Unmaking of a College is a stealthy Hampshire College recruitment/endowment film, but it’s easier to breathe through the subtle sales pitch because the story is true and the message[…]

West Side Story

Music & Musicals · Race

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The New Old West Side Story

  • February 6, 2022

The Sharks and Jets may have been initially inspired by Shakespeare’s Capulets and Montagues, but the gang members we see are really first cousins of the “troubled youth” in popular[…]

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