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Experimental & Underground · Reviews

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Snapshots from Hell: Richard Kern – The Hardcore Collection on DVD

  • October 1, 2001

Kern’s trashy teens fight and fuck their way through an incomprehensible world Transgression seems more like concept than reality in these no-boundaries days, but in the ‘80s and early ‘90s[…]

Directors · Horror · Interviews

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The Wizard of Gore: Herschell Gordon Lewis Speaks

  • October 1, 2001

Wit and wisdom from the man who created one of cinema’s most enduring genres JOHN WISNIEWSKI: Your background in academics was quite different from that of your partner David Friedman.[…]

Experimental & Underground · Horror · Silents

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Jean Epstein’s The Fall of the House of Usher

  • October 1, 2001

Poe’s favorite story dressed to kill by a legendary surrealist auteur Poe has proven to be one of the more enduring sources for filmmakers, not only because there’s something modern,[…]

Cinematographers · Documentaries

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Fear of Darkness: Profiling Sven Nykvist in Light Keeps Me Company

  • October 1, 2001

Bergman’s cinematographer found more solace on the set than in real life Cinematographer Sven Nykvist’s work with Ingmar Bergman is considered one of the key collaborations in modern cinema, and[…]

Books

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Book review: Actors Talk, by Dennis Brown

  • July 15, 2001

Actors Talk: Profiles and Stories from the Acting Trade, by Dennis Brown. New York: Limelight Editions, 1999. 280 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-87910-287-X. I hate watching actors talk about acting. Humor, intelligence, and[…]

Books

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Book review: France on Film, edited by Lucy Mazdon

  • July 15, 2001

France on Film: Reflections on Popular French Cinema, edited by Lucy Mazdon. London: Wallflower Press (£13.99)/New York: Columbia University Press ($55.00 cloth, $20.00 trade paper), 2001, 196pp. Since the Lumieres[…]

Historical & Epic · Reviews · Silents

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Behind the Brocade: Abel Gance’s Lucrezia Borgia

  • July 1, 2001

The Borgias are having an orgy Old master Abel Gance directed this juicy potboiler of family values run amok as a frankly commercial job to put baguettes on the table.[…]

Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews

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Bob Dylan in D. A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back (1967)

  • July 1, 2001

The dude with the ‘tude “If Bob Dylan is a poet, so is Cassius Clay.” So sneered Norman Mailer in 1965, before he realized what the sixties were about, and[…]

Reviews

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Powell and Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (1947)

  • July 1, 2001

The bad boys of classic Brit cinema pull out all the stops, maybe a couple too many In Craig McCall’s short documentary Painting with Light, included on Criterion’s fabulous DVD[…]

LGBT & Queer · Reviews

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Buried Alive: François Ozon’s Under the Sand (2000)

  • July 1, 2001

A French angst-fest mostly redeemed by Charlotte Rampling’s nuanced portrait of a woman unhinged François Ozon’s latest film will come as a bit of a shock to seasoned Ozon watchers,[…]

Actors & Personalities · Reviews

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Brad and Julia Go South in The Mexican

  • July 1, 2001

Julia Roberts has pits! Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts are two of the biggest stars in Hollywood. Each has an annual income that oscillates comfortably from $20 million to $70[…]

Asian · Historical & Epic · Reviews

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Art Film Hidden Inside the Chop-Socky Flick

  • July 1, 2001

Ang Lee: third-wave feminist? The reviews of Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon have been positive – but the critics, somehow, seem more impressed by the trimmings than the turkey.[…]

Experimental & Underground · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews

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The Girls Can’t Help It: Baise-Moi (2000)

  • July 1, 2001

Feminist screed or fetish-screwfest? Flip a coin Female revenge films aren’t exactly an unknown quantity, especially in the exploitation circuit. Pam Grier was one of the genre’s superstars in the[…]

Directors · Experimental & Underground · Reviews

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Sweet Movies: Four by Dusan Makavejev: Man Is Not a Bird; WR: Mysteries of the Organism; Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator; Innocence Unprotected

  • July 1, 2001

Free-associating with a master of free cinema “Free cinema” has the dull ring of an oxymoron. The extreme level of control required and the mass of pressures that collide in[…]

Documentaries · Music & Musicals · Reviews

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Feedback from the Global Village: Culture Docs

  • July 1, 2001

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China offers three documentaries for the price of one; Genghis Blues is too shaggy for words The collapse of Cold War rigidities and[…]

Animation · Animators

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“Hand Me That 14-Inch Willy!” The Puppet Artistry of Barry Purves

  • July 1, 2001

This brilliant Brit’s sleight-of-hand breathes life into wood and wire At a symposium on puppet animation in Seattle a few years ago, Barry Purves, an alumnus of the Aardman Studios[…]

Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews

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Poverty Row, Wardour Street: The Last Years of British Exploitation Cinema

  • July 1, 2001

This golden age is more like fool’s gold, but it has its thrills Even as a Brit, when I think of exploitation cinema, I tend to think of Roger Corman,[…]

Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · Reviews

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San Francisco’s 2001 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

  • July 1, 2001

Celebrating activism and exposing some of the more chaotic corners of world politics Despite an avalanche of news and quasi-news programs, tabloid yakfests, and crudities like Cops, Survivor, and the[…]

Asian · Directors · Historical & Epic · Reviews

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Blood Spear, Mt. Fuji: Uchida Tomu’s Conflicted Comeback from Manchuria (1955)

  • July 1, 2001

Resurrection and renewal in postwar Japanese cinema, as seen through Tomu’s 1955 masterpiece Following Japan’s surrender in World War II, the colonial tables were turned. The Chinese took control of[…]

Festivals & Awards · Silents

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Shaddup! The 2001 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

  • July 1, 2001

All’s quiet on the cinematic front in this seductive survey of the artful ’20s Superman had his Fortress of Solitude; San Francisco has its Silent Film Festival. This annual event,[…]

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