You Look Pretty Splendid Yourself, Orson: A Conversation with Curtis Harrington
On unfinished projects and friendship
Category: Artists
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
“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
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”
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.”
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 · Actors & Personalities · Essays
The Trouble with the Governator: Being Arnold
The ascension of Arnold salvation, apocalypse, or trigger for a resurgent left?
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
Characters · Drama · Essays
Tunes of Mutiny, or Making the Job Bearable: On The Caine Mutiny
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
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!”
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred and Rita Go Latin in You Were Never Lovelier
Chiu chiu to you, baby
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
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
Actors & Personalities · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Angela’s Lashes: Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die!
Stage vet Charles Busch does glam for camp movie
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