Psycho: Queering Hitchcock’s Classic
We have met the cross-dressing closeted maniac, and he is us
Category: Genres
To Slap a Dame: Sexual Violence in the Age of Reason
“Skip is the only one that enacts incest with one hand and bats away communists like flies from a dung pile with the other.”
Queer Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Bubble to When I Knew
“The gays they make too much big crazy!”
Directors · Horror · Interviews
Object in Mirror May Be Closer Than It Appears: Stuart Gordon Talks about Horror, the Absurd, and Stuck
“These two people are stuck in life.”
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres
Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish
“Nobody wants to pay to becastrated anymore.”
What’s Your Edition Number? The Replicanting of Blade Runner: Final Cut
“Ford’s mission seems of no particular consequence. You get the feeling of not getting anywhere of being part of the atmosphere of decay.”
Ghosts of the Present: On Aditya Assarat’s Wonderful Town
“The film is both a bittersweetlove story and a memorial to the tsunami victims.”
Music, Morricone, and Jack Nicholson’s Voice: The Soundscape of Wolf
“Suddenly my senses are all incredibly acute … I’m different, more alive, stronger … “
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas: How Barton Fink Can Set You Free
“All the world’s a hell ten feet square”
Think Globally, Role-play Locally: On Olivier Assayas’ Thriller Boarding Gate
“Its failures are what make it sowatchable.”
Directors · Documentaries · Interviews
Paradise Betrayed: Talking with Terence Davies About Of Time and the City
“You can’t stop time. It stops you.”
Activist & Political · Reviews
Fascism, American Style: Revisiting Kazan and Schulberg’s A Face in the Crowd
“Goodnight, you stupid idiots. Goodnight, you miserable slobs.”
3 Westerns I Watched This Weekend
GOOD – Western Union (Fritz Lang 1941) This is one of Lang’s first color films. He shot it in Arizona’s Painted Desert with special attention to the natural scenery, and[…]
America is Hard to See (Emile De Antonio; 1970)
Eugene McCarthy’s 1968 Presidential campaign started on a premise that would sound downright exotic coming from a member of the United States Senate today. He believed that US military agression[…]
Summer Movie Essential: NIAGARA (1954)
A strangely soothing, a sun-drenched proto-neo-noir, NIAGARA is one of my favorite Marilyn Monroe movies, up there with DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK and THE MISFITS in its ability to capture[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Some Remarks on Bruce Conner and Report
Entering into negotiations with executives at Time, Inc. over the sale of a film he’d shot in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Abraham Zapruder was adamant that his 26.6 seconds[…]
Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
DVD of the Week: Come Drink With Me (1966)
It’s not the typical kung fu movie in that the action is not very well choreographed. I don’t think actress Cheng Pei-pei could do too many stunts. But director King[…]
Summer is a time for Aldrich, but keep Sister George away…
It’s been a few weeks since I laid eyes on it, but there’s something still making me a bit sick whenever I think of THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE. So[…]
The Human Monster: On Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
“There are no good and bad men; there are only damaged men … “
Historical & Epic · Writers & Critics
Bowling for America: Robert Warshow, There Will Be Blood, and the Topography of Desire
“The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist. But the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.”
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