Essays · Horror · Writers & Critics
“There are monsters that are born with a form that is half-animal and half-human . . . which are produced by sodomists and atheists who join together, and break out[…]
Although most film noirs take place in an urban setting, the “dark city,” Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010) shows how the noir vision can thrive almost anywhere – it is[…]
Consider the following plotline: A young man travels to another world where he infiltrates the indigenous people and adopts their ways. He is befriended by a beautiful young woman who[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
by Matthew Sorrento If intentional camp is bad, then camp striving to be bad is even worse. So claimed Susan Sontag, in her 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” and others[…]
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
DOC NYC, a new documentary festival that runs from November 3-9, features more than 40 films, U.S. premieres, tributes, and appearances, among them both Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. Films[…]
Comedy · Essays · LGBT & Queer
“Perhaps Hollywood, in trying to engage in queer possibilities for its narratives and with its audiences, could only put up a resistance to the binaries in the dominant culture through[…]
Actors & Personalities · Comedy · Directors
“What’s all this about good and evil?” With the release of The Great Dictator late in 1940, Charlie Chaplin had done it again. He had made a movie that, with[…]
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[…]
“My first exposure to the transcendent grit of Dog Day Afternooon, at the age of 13, may have aroused an inchoate urban longing.”
Actually, a lot
“When Banksy sits in silhouette during his onscreen interviews, we have no proof that it’s really him, nor even that Banksy is a real individual.”
Music & Musicals · Writers & Critics
“Coogan’s representation of Jesus, ascending high above the audience, is far removed from the silly, sexy Jesus who sang to us earlier wearing a wife-beater.”
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Historical & Epic · Interviews
“I’d love to be Orson’s assistant again.”
Directors · Documentaries · Interviews
“We just followed the leads.”
Activist & Political · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica
Or Can Tea Party Porn Strike a Blow for the American Way?
“What makes The Fury work in the end is the complementary sense that this conflict is part of the film’s very construction, so you can appreciate the audacity of the auto-da-fé.”
Activist & Political · Festivals & Awards
“For a brief week or two, adventurous filmgoers can capture elusive truths found in works of complexity, moral ambiguity, and seriousness of purpose, all uncensored.”
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Of insular wonderlands and open cityscapes
“We want to be Bond; we want to fuck Bond; we want to be Bond fucking.”
