Photo Essays · Reviews · Silents
More than 20 years before Jacques Tourneur took us to an exotic tropical isle in 1943’s I Walked With a Zombie, his father, producer/director Maurice Tourneur (1876-1961), blazed a similar trail with his[…]
The Avatar hype continues. There was a front-page piece in the L.A. Times today, whining – for lack of a better word – about how “unlike the great majority of[…]
“Cameron is Hollywood’s dream boy: a superficial auteur with impeccable brand recognition.”
Director Frank Barabont hijacks — and sinks — Stephen King’s powerful allegory of political oppression
Vampires? Yeah, we’ve got that. Oh, and Michelangelo too
Horror · Reviews · SF & Fantasy
“Hillcoat and his crew have taken the book’s hints and modeled their scavenging pair on contemporary images of homeless people, who already, as Hillcoat aptly puts it, are ‘living that apocalyptic world of day-to-day survival on the streets with no money and no food.'”
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Can quantity trump quality? Not so much
Actors & Personalities · Silents
“Valentino said there’s nothing like tile for a tango!” — Norma Desmond to Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
“Peer pressure is either a boon or a bitch with the power to destroy the world, or save it.”
“It was once the figurehead of a slave ship. That’s where our people come from. From the misery and pain of slavery.” ~ I Walked with a Zombie
“The films of the Coen brothers seem to take place in a postmodern Chelm, displaced chronologically and geographically.”
Activist & Political · Reviews
“The result is satire that doesn’t breathe.”
Actors & Personalities · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
“Divine is as unstoppable as nature, destined to repeatedly transgress, destroy, and create.”
“With Zodiac, obsession becomes the point of origin, the catalyst for artistic creation.”
Crime · Silents · Thrillers & Action
“The shadow of Mabuse falls over the 1926 Soviet adventure serial Miss Mend, too, but without the angst and gloom of Lang’s Der Spieler.”
“There’s kind of nowhere else [the movie] could go.” Steve Carrell
“Anderson, like Dahl, seems to have told a story to appeal to a child’s inner adult.”
“The explicit nature of this wave of filmmaking can be interpreted as a riposte to modern cultural sensibilities.”
“The film suggests the denial of the common worker, whose service to industry is only as worthy as his social status.”
Counterculture · Directors · Documentaries · Interviews
On Art, Identity, Families, Fragmentation, Medication . . . and Fulfillment
