Matthew Sorrento teaches film studies and writing at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ and lectures on film at Rutgers University in Camden. He has regularly contributed to Film Threat and Identity Theory, where he serves as film editor, and his work has appeared in Senses of Cinema and Pop Matters. His first book, The New American Crime Film, was published in 2012. BLFJ News · Interviews · Writers & Critics
In the shameless self-promotion department (and because it’s his birthday), we decided to retrieve this interview with Bright Lights’ head honcho Gary Morris. Our favorite interviewer, Matt Sorrento, talked to him in[…]
Interviews · Writers & Critics
“In Meek’s Cutoff — about a community making decisions based on limited information, confronting their own attitudes toward the unknown — it seemed appropriate that the movie would end on a moment of unknowing, incompletion.”
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Experimental & Underground · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
“Any director who shoots a grindhouse film without exquisite, triumphant, dangerous, and naked women is doing a disservice to the genre and should move into a different field.”
Directors · Documentaries · Interviews
“We just followed the leads.”
Film Noir: The Encyclopedia, 4th edition; edited by Alain Silver, Elizabeth Ward, James Ursini, and Robert Porfirio. Hardcover. $49.95. New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2010. ISBN 1-59020-144-2. The consensus is clear:[…]
Directors · Interviews · Music & Musicals
“Being middle-age rock and rollers, just trying to pay the bills, isn’t an easy lifestyle.”
Interviews · Noir · Writers & Critics
“[My film] is stylized and theatrical because the story is so telescoped we have a life-and-death outcome played out over 20 actual minutes.”
“The film suggests the denial of the common worker, whose service to industry is only as worthy as his social status.”
“Arriaga’s use of eroticism and semi-incest between respective children of the two illicit lovers is more than a pastiche; it’s an organic outgrowth from an idea.”
Harlan Ellison’s Watching (Reissue) Harlan Ellison. Milwaukee: M Press, 2008 (1989). Paperback, $12.95, 465pp. ISBN: 978-1-59582-056-3 We want to believe that great writing happens in solitude, during nighttime hours in which[…]
Directors · Horror · Interviews
“These two people are stuck in life.”
