The League of Extraordinary Subtitles: Bad Translations Offer Meta Fun
“Got it into your head to stuff from the dark continent.” Got it?
Category: Genres
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Lars von Trier: Pornographer?
Impossible…
Distribute This! Francisco Athié’s Vera (Mexico, 2003)
Bad day at Bedrock
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
Twelve-Tone Cinema: A Scattershot Notebook on Sexual Atonality
Is queerness an angry chord or a beautiful harmony?
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
Bonnie and Clyde: Together Again
Warren Beatty’s seminal sixties shoot-’em-up revisited
Down with Underrated Masterpieces! Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Down with Love
The sound of no hands clapping
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Writers & Critics
“Being There”: No Maps for These Territories on DVD
“I was just doing my job.”
Baden Boy: Peter Sehr’s Kaspar Hauser
Poor boy, long way from home
You Can’t Go Home Again: Return of the King
Maybe that’s a good thing
Capturing the Beauty of the Beast: Aileen Wuornos, Charlize Theron, and Monster
The “monster” Wuornos and why she won’t go away
A Memoir of Circumstance and Substance: My Architect
A son looks at a father and sees much more in this superb doc
What We Talk About When We Talk About Ho Meng-Hua
How to strike at the heart of a beast with the heart of a beast
Architecture as Social Commentary: The Absurdities of Il Posto
Olmi’s 1961 masterpiece comes to DVD in an excellent transfer
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”
O Captain! My Captain! Master and Commander
Master and Commander wants to raise your mast
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
Animation · Historical & Epic · War
Private Snafu’s Hidden War: Historical Survey and Analytical Perspective
The famed doofus of WWII propaganda cartoons served purposes patriotic and perfidious
Comedy · LGBT & Queer · Pre-Code
Wheeler and Woolsey Queered
The downright peculiar pleasures of pre-Code Wheeler and Woolsey
All That Heaven Disallows: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul on DVD
Postwar German culture is skewered in this Fassbinder masterpiece, beautifully presented by Criterion.
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