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A Short History of Cahiers du Cinéma, by Emilie Bickerton. London: Verso, 2009. Hardcover , $22.95. 156 pp. ISBN 978-1-84467-232-5. The sober, aptly descriptive title that Emilie Bickerton has given[…]
Hollywood Under Siege: Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars, by Thomas R. Lindlof. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky. 2008. Hardcover $32.50, 394pp. ISBN 78-0-8131-2517-6. No one can[…]
The pathos is never maudlin or icky, but rather soothing (thanks to Lorre’s velvety vocal delivery), creepy and a little post-modern – with Lorre’s own weird real life looks keeping him from ever ‘getting the girl’ no matter how many movies he’s in.
If any movement made cinema history into a reactionary narrative, it would be the French New Wave. A batch of cinephiles, most working as critics for Cahiers du Cinema (established[…]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhqOFWdtDdY] Remember when Jean-Luc Godard made films that were avant-garde but still, somehow, comprehensible? That was a long time ago, the 1960s to be precise. Yet, like The Big Lebowski’s[…]
Another masterpiece by the late Frank Frazetta (1928-2010), and a classic example of how Hollywood studio thinking — a misguided attempt to reach the widest demographic possible — destroyed the potential[…]
From the outset, it seems to be a bold-faced cash-in culled from little investment. In Babies, a French-produced doc which got a surprisingly wide release this past weekend, we have[…]
Directors · Reviews · SF & Fantasy
Can a film’s designer be its effective auteur? He can, if his name is William Cameron Menzies. Menzies is best known for directing and designing two classics of the science[…]
Memoir · SF & Fantasy · Writers & Critics
“I’ll eat you up. I love you so.”
“Like any old-style modernist, Haneke likes to make the audience work.”
“We are no longer in an era of vampire stories.” — Jean-Luc Nancy
“Traditional gender roles seem to be in no danger of evolving.”
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Horror
“The pain is my only reminder that he [Edward] was real.” — Bella (Kristen Stewart)
Animation · Crime · TV & Streaming · Westerns
“When you come at the king, you best not miss.”
“I have always contended that in addition to talent, success depends on a little bit of luck, and my luck seemed to have run out, professionally at least.” –Preston Sturges, on the making of The French, They Are a Funny Race1
Activist & Political · Documentaries
“To twist Gayatri Spivak’s famous phrase, it’s a case of (mostly) ‘white men saving cute dolphins from yellow men.'”
“I had to allow time to let experience ferment inside me, and by then you forget whether what you went through was useful or not!”
Essays · SF/Fantasy · TV & Streaming
“By treating the style of the original series as integral to the show — and not as a kind of regrettable defect — we can get a better grasp on the Star Trek phenomenon itself.”
Shutter Island might be the only psychological thriller abetted by a lack of interest in the psyche.
“Vestiges of French customs and family life remain throughout these films, yet their concerns testify to a rapidly shifting society.”
