Gary Morris founded Bright Lights Film Journal as a print publication in 1974; it became a web-only magazine in 1996. He is the author of the monograph Roger Corman (Twayne Publishers, 1985) and the editor of Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran (Anthem Press, 2009). Little Joe, Superstar: The Films of Joe Dallesandro, by Michael Ferguson. Laguna Hills, CA: Companion Press, 1998. ISBN 1-889138-09-6, Trade paper, $18.95. Monique von Vooren was mesmerized by his “translucent skin”; Sylvia Miles called it[…]
The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry, by Anthony Slide. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press,1998. Oversize hardcover, ISBN 0-8108-3426-X, 207pp, $55.00. Film dictionaries have become a genre unto themselves lately, and[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
Fun in the New World Corman founded New World in 1970; it was his second attempt to control production and distribution (after the ill-fated Film Group, which lasted a couple[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
Ecstasy for all! says the pied piper of queer experimental film Every movement has its muses. James Broughton probably would have copped to being a muse, or perhaps more accurately,[…]
Crime · Noir · Reviews · Uncategorized
Good golly, Mr. Holly! In one of the many extras in Criterion’s sumptuous DVD presentation of Carol Reed’s The Third Man, Peter Bogdanovich calls the film “the greatest non-auteur film[…]
The film suffered almost as much as Joan before arriving in a gorgeous DVD. In spite of the hype, DVD is more often promise than fulfillment. Many, perhaps most, of[…]
Criminal high jinks with a different kind of family Family, aka “the F word,” comes in many forms, or so says Hermine Huntgeburth’s bittersweet black comedy The Trio (1998). This[…]
Ari’s a mess – it’s in his kiss Ana Kokkinos’s debut feature Head On was one of the more distinctive entries in San Francisco’s 1999 Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,[…]
Teenage lesbians gleefully terrorize Sweden Mention teenage love and lust, and images immediately arise of tabloid TV shows and creepy Internet chat rooms overrun by drooling chicken hawks and FBI[…]
Crime · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
These boys do, and so do the girls The credits for Boys Don’t Cry list “Killer Films” as one of the production companies, and that’s as apt a description of[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The legendary head flick from the ’60s in a polished new print “Head movies” – those mind-bending epics like 2001 or El Topo that are supposedly best viewed under the[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Producers & Studios · Reviews
The beloved low-budget exploitation company sampled New World Pictures (1970-1983) was the brainchild of Roger Corman. It was his second attempt (after The Filmgroup in the early ’60s) to run[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
What better way to attack the monolith of social/sexual repression than by attacking the “sanctity” of the linear narrative? “The Official cinema of the world has run out of breath.[…]
Jean Arthur: The Actress Nobody Knew, by John Oller (New York: Limelight Editions, 1999), Trade paper, $18.95, 358pp, ISBN 0-87910-278-0. Jean Arthur would seem to be an impossible subject for[…]
VideoHound’s War Movies: Classic Conflict on Film, by Mike Mayo (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1999), Trade paper, $19.95, 638pp, ISBN 1-57859-089-2. VideoHound’s been shifting gears lately. Earlier on they concentrated on[…]
100 Years of Oz: A Century of Classic Images from The Wizard of Oz collection of Willard Carroll, by John Fricke (New York: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1999), Cloth, $29.95,[…]
Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir, by Foster Hirsch (New York: Limelight Editions, 1999), Trade paper, $20.00, 358pp, ISBN 0-87910-288-8. Foster Hirsch’s The Dark Side of the Screen: Film[…]
The Ultimate Directory of Film Technicians: A Necrology of Dates and Place of Births and Deaths of More Than 9,000 Producers, Screenwriters, Composers, Cinematographers, Art Directors, Costume Designers, Choreographers, Executives,[…]
Eccentrics of Comedy, by Anthony Slide (Metuchen, NJ:Scarecrow Press, 1998), Hardcover (no dust jacket), $36.00, 168pp, ISBN 0-8108-3534-7. I was sure the world had gone mad when I retrieved this[…]
The Go Fish queen goes fishing again – this time for gay boys and the men and women who love them Rose Troche’s Go Fish (1994) was one of the[…]
