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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.”
Activist & Political · LGBT & Queer
“The transvestite’s camp humor is here used to stress the unsustainability of the military discourses on which the justification of IRA terrorism is based.”
Crime · Drama · Exploitation & Erotica
Take your seats for a “dark-hearted, midnight fantasia of ecstatic sadism, voyeurism and psychosis”!
“The very idea of losing is hateful to Americans.”
Essays · Noir · Writers & Critics
Or Advanced Guide to Cinematic Survival?
Interviews · Noir · Writers & Critics
“[My film] is stylized and theatrical because the story is so telescoped we have a life-and-death outcome played out over 20 actual minutes.”
“I’m using the computer (Photoshop) a bit more than I like to admit, but I still love traditional illustration, watercolor and oils.”
Documentaries · Reviews · Writers & Critics
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