Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Film Technology & History · Movie Theatres
“There are no start times, there are no intermissions . . . there is no beginning, there is no end.” The movie exhibition business has always been extremely volatile. The[…]
“We want to be Bond; we want to fuck Bond; we want to be Bond fucking.”
“Beyond religion, we have resorted to a more modern neurosis to calm our terrors and complement our pretended ennui: cuteness.”
“My first exposure to the transcendent grit of Dog Day Afternooon, at the age of 13, may have aroused an inchoate urban longing.”
Actors & Personalities · Essays
“The time-and-place for Dean’s performances is always now, in the moment of its creation, and he resists any technique that obscures that fact.”
Activist & Political · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica
Or Can Tea Party Porn Strike a Blow for the American Way?
Directors · Essays · Writers & Critics
“I would very much like to attract others into my world, but my world is not the world of crowds, though the crowds have often lined up before my world.”1
Activist & Political · Drama · Essays
“He tries to trick you. I try to enlighten you. Which is the more noble pursuit?” The Illusionist was released in 2006 to generally good reviews (the consensus seemed to[…]
“Aldridge’s shoot is so striking because it purports to discover glamour in the mind of an unhinged woman: an associative path that has been cut by cinema.”
“Whose stories do these films really tell?”
“They rapin” everybody out here.” — Antoine Dodson
“In our devotion to realism-as-catharsis, we’ve become so obsessed with psychologizing fictional characters that we forget we are the ones who need humanizing.”
Counterculture · Essays · SF & Fantasy
“What entertains us may be shaping us.”
Wonder Boys is a wonder; The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, not so much
“While films about men with dangerous jobs showed them returning home to supportive, contented wives, films that focused on domestic settings showed women caught in oppressive relationships or warped by the narrowness of their emotional lives.”
“In Mad Men, as in modern American politics, the past is a pre-lapsarian paradise to which it is imperative to return, and the fantasy is of those exiled from history itself.”
That still finds musicians easier to rob
Animation · Essays · SF & Fantasy
“We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.” — Lewis Carroll, “Child of the Pure Unclouded Brow”
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Essays
“The films analyzed here explore the (crude) question: what are the individual and social consequences of eating shit?”
