How to Turn One’s Back on a Tyrant: Part Two
The opposite of realism is not fantasy, but disappointment
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Sex in Shangri-La: Wakefield Poole on DVD
“No top, no bottom. Just two men discovering each other.”
Actors & Personalities · Directors · Reviews
Little Big Man: John Garfield Triumphs in Anatole Litvak’s Out of the Fog
Garfield wraps it up in this 1941 prole drama based on a Group Theatre production
Tongues Untied: Art, Politics, and Business Collide at Oscar’s 75th
It’s contagious even Oscar dissented.
Bad Film, Great Soundtrack: New Orleans on DVD
How Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday saved New Orleans from the Yankees
“Fabulous Gowns but No Pussy!”: An Interview with Holly Woodlawn
A superstar talks Trash and papayas
Desperately Seeking Ginger: Hollywood Rhythms, Vol. 2 on DVD offers relief for the Rogers Deprived
Hollywood Rhythms, Vol. 2 on DVD offers relief for the Rogers-Deprived.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, 2003: A Review
Fine performances are the main attraction of this timely New York tribute to recent French film.
Fellini’s Society Rehearsal: Orchestra Rehearsal Reconsidered
In which “Fellini takes us beyond our frailties and chaos”
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
“I Like His Face”: Nicholas Ray’s Noir Classic Restored on DVD
Do you like his face?
Directors · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
The Beauty of Uncertainty: I Know Where I’m Going on DVD
Powell/Pressburger’s fairy tale comes to life on Criterion’s DVD
They Lost It at the Movies: Film Culture in the Age of Positif and Cineaste
“I can’t believe that you let those people put pictures on your skin.” C. W.’s father to C. W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde
Activist & Political · Directors · Documentaries
Bowling a Strike for Columbine: Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting
Michael Moore hits the screen with both barrels blasting.
From Joy Luck to Better Luck: The title is a little too accurate
The title is a little too accurate
Through a Glass Darkly: Bergman as Critical and Cultural Bellwether
As Bergman goes, so go attitudes toward European art cinema.
Out of Focus Auto Focus: Hogan’s Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years.
Hogan’s Hero becomes Rerun Victim in a few delirious years.
Directors · Experimental & Underground
An Appraisal of the Films of William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Anthony Balch in terms of Recent Avant Garde Theory
Those crazy “cut-ups” Burroughs, Gysin, and Balch restored to their rightful place in avant-garde film history Preface This is the first serious critical study to contextualize the films of Burroughs,[…]
Chicago: Hollywood Does Bollywood
No one can steal like America can steal Wish you could look like Leo, dance like Fred, and sing like Frank? Well, of course you do, but you can’t, and[…]
Composers · Music & Musicals · Reviews
Weill & Brecht: The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny on DVD
Show us the way to the next pretty boy Don’t know much about history? Well, don’t sweat it, because Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht didn’t either when they decided to[…]
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