Actors & Personalities · Directors · Silents
Looking at Charlie: Keystone and Essanay Days
The first in an occasional series of articles on the life and work of Charlie Chaplin
Category: Directors
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Cool: Appropriation and Prospects of Subversion in the Works of Quentin Tarantino
Overthrowing the patriarchy, one flush at a time
You Look Pretty Splendid Yourself, Orson: A Conversation with Curtis Harrington
On unfinished projects and friendship
Forgotten Master: The Career of Gregory La Cava
Lubitsch wasn’t the only one with a “touch”
Directors · Experimental & Underground · Festivals & Awards
“Too Busy Making Work!” Honoring Michael Snow at the 2004 Thessaloniki Film Festival
Painter, photographer, sculptor, composer, musician and here, seminal experimental filmmaker
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Lars von Trier: Pornographer?
Impossible…
Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone: A Photo Essay on the Master’s Visual Motifs
For almost fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock filled his films with a select group of images, including houses, staircases, women’s hair, the human hand, the human eye, the “uncanny,” and the[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews · LGBT & Queer
Keep on Truckin’ An Interview with Joe Gage
A gay-porn pioneer speaks
Activist & Political · Directors
Film as a Catalyst for Social Change: Ousmane Sembene’s Borom Sarret
This 1963 short film, considered the first African-made African film, remains relevant 40 years later
Leni’s Body Beautiful: Forty Years of Riefenstahl’s Olympic Gaze in the James Bond Title Credits
In the beginning there was Leni, and Leni begat Robert and Maurice, who begat the Bond title sequences.
The Wave Breaks: Star Danish Directors Fail to Translate
From the regional to the international and back in a few short years
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres · Writers & Critics
Dancing with Werewolves: John Sayles in Roger Corman’s Hollywood
It Came from New World Pictures!
Steven Spielberg: A Jew in America: Deconstructing Catch Me If You Can
“If only I knew then what I know now.”
Out of Focus Auto Focus: Hogan’s Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years.
Hogan’s Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years.
Through a Glass Darkly: Bergman as Critical and Cultural Bellwether
As Bergman goes, so go attitudes toward European art cinema.
From Joy Luck to Better Luck: The title is a little too accurate
The title is a little too accurate
Activist & Political · Directors · Documentaries
Bowling a Strike for Columbine: Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting
Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting.
They Lost It at the Movies: Film Culture in the Age of Positif and Cineaste
“I can’t believe that you let those people put pictures on your skin.” C. W.’s father to C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
The Beauty of Uncertainty: I Know Where I’m Going on DVD
Powell/Pressburger’s fairy tale comes to life on Criterion’s DVD
Links + BSA
