You Can’t Go Home Again: Return of the King
Maybe that’s a good thing
Baden Boy: Peter Sehr’s Kaspar Hauser
Poor boy, long way from home
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Writers & Critics
“Being There”: No Maps for These Territories on DVD
“I was just doing my job.”
Down with Underrated Masterpieces! Looney Tunes: Back in Action and Down with Love
The sound of no hands clapping
Bonnie and Clyde: Together Again
Warren Beatty’s seminal sixties shoot-’em-up revisited
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
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer
Twelve-Tone Cinema: A Scattershot Notebook on Sexual Atonality
Is queerness an angry chord or a beautiful harmony?
Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone: A Photo Essay on the Master’s Visual Motifs
For almost fifty years, Alfred Hitchcock filled his films with a select group of images, including houses, staircases, women’s hair, the human hand, the human eye, the “uncanny,” and the[…]
Comedy · LGBT & Queer · Pre-Code
Wheeler and Woolsey Queered
The downright peculiar pleasures of pre-Code Wheeler and Woolsey
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
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Black Rose 2 to Moebius to Wattstax
“I love people reading things with hearts!”
Kubrick and the Coen Brothers Again: The Shining and Fargo
The Shining and Fargo share a view of a society “stupefied by its hypothetical aspirations”
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
The 2003 New York Film Festival
This year’s NYFF is a decidedly mixed bag of tricks
The 2003 Montréal World Film Festival
A world-class city offers a world-class fest despite some troubling backstory
O Captain! My Captain! Master and Commander
Master and Commander wants to raise your mast
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Fred and Rita Go Latin in You Were Never Lovelier
Chiu chiu to you, baby
Music & Musicals · Writers & Critics
Shakespeare Improved! Cole Porter Teaches the Old Bard New Tricks in Kiss Me Kate
“Why, you’d make a perfect shrew!”
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Interviews · LGBT & Queer
Keep on Truckin’ An Interview with Joe Gage
A gay-porn pioneer speaks
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner: Native Canadians and a Glimpse in the Mirror
This breakthrough film fascinates on many levels
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