“He’d fuck himself if he could”
Norbert, We Hardly Knew Ye: Rethinking the Late German Composer
He composed “Lili Marleen” and, oh yeah, hundreds of other songs and scores
How to Murder John Williams: Toward an Ideology of Contrapuntal Antirealism
To construct musicality through expressionism, or to express musicality through constructivism?
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Revisiting Preminger’s The Moon Is Blue
Mixing it up with Otto and Alfred (Kinsey, that is)
Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
Film Technology & History · Genres · Horror
Horror Queens: Divas from Hollywood’s Golden Age Rampage Through the Sixties
“She’s supposed to be shriveling away,” observed Davis, “but her tits keep growing. I keep running into them, like the Hollywood hills.”
Defending the Deviates: Evelyn Hooker Documentary Changing Our Minds on Video
“It had something to do with my sexual intercourse”
Tears in the Astroturf: Friday Night Lights II
This feel-good movie doesn’t
Odessa, Texas Goes Hollywood: Friday Night Lights I
Are you ready for some rural idiocy?1
Exploitation & Erotica · Festivals & Awards
Where Kink Is King: The 2004 CineKink Festival
Won’t you be my pony boy?
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Blue Skies? Well, Partly Sunny
Fred ‘n’ Bing ‘n’ Irv, Part II
“If I were different, maybe things could be the same, only different.” Leo McCarey’s Screwball Classic The Awful Truth on DVD
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne live our dreams
Punishment Parks: The Battle of Algiers on DVD
Look familiar?
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Black Pirate to H.P. Lovecraft to Uum Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt
“Ah’m no freak! They ah disgustin’!”
The Verve Is Back: The New York Film Festival 2004
This year’s fest features a wealth of winners and a few flops
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