All the Citizen’s Men: Kane as Welles; also America
Kane as Welles, also America
Category: Artists
Books · LGBT & Queer · Writers & Critics
“I Changed My Socially Constructed Sexual Identity!” Jenni Olson on The Queer Movie Poster Book
“The butler did it … to everyone!”
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
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Too Much Bing, Not Enough Fred: Holiday Inn
There’s not much room at the Holiday Inn.
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
“Follies” Is Right! Musical Madness at MGM
Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly barely survive Ziegfeld Follies
A Memoir of Circumstance and Substance: My Architect
A son looks at a father and sees much more in this superb doc
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Lars von Trier: Pornographer?
Impossible…
Characters · Essays · Genres · Thrillers & Action
The Revolutionary James Bond Movie: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
In which Lazenby, like Lazarus, is resurrected, along with the movie
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Writers & Critics
“Being There”: No Maps for These Territories on DVD
“I was just doing my job.”
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred Meets Joan Leslie, and The Sky’s the Limit
“Never let it be said little Freddie can’t carry his load”
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[…]
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
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews · LGBT & Queer
Keep on Truckin’ An Interview with Joe Gage
A gay-porn pioneer speaks
Music & Musicals · Writers & Critics
Shakespeare Improved! Cole Porter Teaches the Old Bard New Tricks in Kiss Me Kate
“Why, you’d make a perfect shrew!”
Characters · Drama · Essays
Tunes of Mutiny, or Making the Job Bearable: On The Caine Mutiny
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
Essays · SF & Fantasy · Writers & Critics
Patriotism, Politics, and Propaganda: The Naturalization of Friday’s Man, Robinson, in Robinson Crusoe on Mars
Defoe’s classic translates surprisingly well to outer space in this 1960s gem
Activist & Political · Actors & Personalities · Essays
The Trouble with the Governator: Being Arnold
The ascension of Arnold salvation, apocalypse, or trigger for a resurgent left?
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