Gordon Thomas, trained as a painter, is a photographer living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with his wife. Film has fascinated and worried him ever since, as a small child, he saw Godzilla in 1954. 
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Col. William N. Selig: The Man Who Invented Hollywood by Andrew A. Erish. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. Cloth, $60.00, 303pp, illustrated. ISBN: 978-0-292-72870-7. Anyone writing about a pioneer of[…]
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
“Sex mingles easily with religion, and their blending has one of those slightly repulsive and yet exquisite and poignant flavors, which startle the palate like a revelation — of what? That, precisely, is the question.” – Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun “The Devils is Arthur Miller’s The Crucible with open sores, open bonfires, court intrigue, the King shooting Protestants for sport, the callous and ludicrous behaviour of the Inquisition, the two-facedness of the King’s soldiers and sex-deprived nuns. It’s about the corruption of a whole town and the man at the centre who defies it. — Ken Russell, quoted in the London Times, March 13, 2012
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
“The resurrection of Fritz Lang’s original cut has revealed how well this film functions with its associative network of image layered onto an adventure/SF thriller, but the reasons for its mysterious pull coalesce into an x-factor that resists analysis.”
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Directors · Essays · Writers & Critics
“I would very much like to attract others into my world, but my world is not the world of crowds, though the crowds have often lined up before my world.”1
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Crime · Silents · Thrillers & Action
“The shadow of Mabuse falls over the 1926 Soviet adventure serial Miss Mend, too, but without the angst and gloom of Lang’s Der Spieler.”
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Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who starred as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1967), died last Friday (12/4) at the age of 81. Tikhonov is one of a trio[…]
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