Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews
Fun in the New World Corman founded New World in 1970; it was his second attempt to control production and distribution (after the ill-fated Film Group, which lasted a couple[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
Ecstasy for all! says the pied piper of queer experimental film Every movement has its muses. James Broughton probably would have copped to being a muse, or perhaps more accurately,[…]
Crime · Noir · Reviews · Uncategorized
Good golly, Mr. Holly! In one of the many extras in Criterion’s sumptuous DVD presentation of Carol Reed’s The Third Man, Peter Bogdanovich calls the film “the greatest non-auteur film[…]
The film suffered almost as much as Joan before arriving in a gorgeous DVD. In spite of the hype, DVD is more often promise than fulfillment. Many, perhaps most, of[…]
Criminal high jinks with a different kind of family Family, aka “the F word,” comes in many forms, or so says Hermine Huntgeburth’s bittersweet black comedy The Trio (1998). This[…]
Ari’s a mess – it’s in his kiss Ana Kokkinos’s debut feature Head On was one of the more distinctive entries in San Francisco’s 1999 Lesbian and Gay Film Festival,[…]
Teenage lesbians gleefully terrorize Sweden Mention teenage love and lust, and images immediately arise of tabloid TV shows and creepy Internet chat rooms overrun by drooling chicken hawks and FBI[…]
Crime · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
These boys do, and so do the girls The credits for Boys Don’t Cry list “Killer Films” as one of the production companies, and that’s as apt a description of[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The legendary head flick from the ’60s in a polished new print “Head movies” – those mind-bending epics like 2001 or El Topo that are supposedly best viewed under the[…]
It’s not just Ryan who needs saving. My friend Kevin and I were lingering over one too many bourbons. The jukebox was playing “What If God Was One of Us.”[…]
Fritz Lang brings the terrors of noir into the bright kitchens of America. Watch that coffee pot! In Bright Lights 12 devoted to film noir, Gary Morris locates the malaise[…]
Composers · Music & Musicals · SF & Fantasy
Serling’s groundbreaking series was also a warm haven for Hollywood’s greatest composer Last weekend I purchased the Herrmann Twilight Zone double-CD, and I’ve played it about ten times by now[…]
Exploitation & Erotica · Producers & Studios · Reviews
The beloved low-budget exploitation company sampled New World Pictures (1970-1983) was the brainchild of Roger Corman. It was his second attempt (after The Filmgroup in the early ’60s) to run[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
What better way to attack the monolith of social/sexual repression than by attacking the “sanctity” of the linear narrative? “The Official cinema of the world has run out of breath.[…]
100 Years of Oz: A Century of Classic Images from The Wizard of Oz collection of Willard Carroll, by John Fricke (New York: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang, 1999), Cloth, $29.95,[…]
The Go Fish queen goes fishing again – this time for gay boys and the men and women who love them Rose Troche’s Go Fish (1994) was one of the[…]
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Forget all those other boring indie brother teams – these guys were the original geniuses of cinema’s bargain basement. The sudden death, disappearance, or withdrawal of a key actor during[…]
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals · Reviews
“Hey fella, twirl that old propella” Hollywood producer Merriam Cooper loved three things: airplanes, the tropics, and giant gorillas.1 In Flying Down to Rio, Cooper’s 1933 airborne musical, he went[…]
The “velocity” of this misguided AIDS drama never materializes Director Dan Ireland made an impressive debut in 1997 with The Whole Wide World, a sleeper about the 1930s pulp writer[…]
Mark Illsley’s dicey debut feature about faux gay cons in the hideous heartland One sign of the maturing of a community is its ability to laugh at itself, something that[…]
