Justin Vicari is a creative writer and film critic. In 2005 he received the Third Coast Poetry Prize, the New Millennium Writings Poetry Prize, and the Plan B Press Short Fiction Award. His essays on film have also appeared in Senses of Cinema, Jump Cut, Postmodern Culture, Cinetext, and Film Quarterly. See his >Amazon page for information on Justin and his books Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema, The Gus Van Sant Touch, Mad Muses and Early Surrealists, and The Professional Weepers. 
“Wasn’t he just there, standing right in front of us?” Actors are known to be complicated beings. Because the successful ones loom so large in our vision, their deaths are[…]
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“It flashes before our eyes, and we are not even sure what we have witnessed.” There is an incongruous moment in Please Leave Quietly (2006), the long-awaited concert DVD from[…]
“Fassbinder’s probing camera shows us what the doctors fail to see . . .” Rainer Werner Fassbinder accurately predicted the rise of the “medicated society” in his 1975 film Angst[…]
