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Crime · Silents · Thrillers & Action
“The shadow of Mabuse falls over the 1926 Soviet adventure serial Miss Mend, too, but without the angst and gloom of Lang’s Der Spieler.”
Actors & Personalities · Experimental & Underground · LGBT & Queer
“Divine is as unstoppable as nature, destined to repeatedly transgress, destroy, and create.”
“What you got was what you saw, a man with a soldier’s training speaking ever so nicely and trying not to stretch himself beyond his abilities as an actor.” ~ David Niven
“The films of the Coen brothers seem to take place in a postmodern Chelm, displaced chronologically and geographically.”
“Peer pressure is either a boon or a bitch with the power to destroy the world, or save it.”
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
Actors & Personalities · Music & Musicals
Can quantity trump quality? Not so much
Vampires? Yeah, we’ve got that. Oh, and Michelangelo too
“Cameron is Hollywood’s dream boy: a superficial auteur with impeccable brand recognition.”
You’ll come for the irony, you’ll stay for the tits
I’ve written a lot about the decline of the “Father” in genre film–from tough WW2 vet to tough but loving 70s hedonist to needy, emasculated single dad of the 21st[…]
Can a filmmaker spend most of his or her artistic life recycling other people’s ideas and still be a true auteur? Sure. Why not? Any idea, theme, style, or attitude[…]
Vyacheslav Tikhonov, who starred as Prince Andrei Bolkonsky in Sergei Bondarchuk’s War and Peace (1967), died last Friday (12/4) at the age of 81. Tikhonov is one of a trio[…]
In My Father’s Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles, by Chris Welles Feder. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books, 2009. Hardcover. $24.95. 304pp. ISBN 978-1565125995. Orson Welles, as Walter Kerr wrote[…]
Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber, Edited by Robert Polito. USA: The Library of America, 2009. Hardcover, $40.00. 1,000pp. ISBN: 978-1598530506. Farber on Film The dizzying creativity[…]
America’s Film Vault: A Reference Guide to the Motion Pictures Held by the U.S. National Archives, by Phillip W. Stewart. Crestview FL: PMS Press, 2009. Trade paperback, $39.95. 308pp. ISBN: 0-979-32430-0.[…]
Performing Illusions: Cinema, Special Effects and the Virtual Actor,by Dan North. London: Wallflower, 2008. Paperback $28.00, 224pp. ISBN: 978-1-905674-43-4. “Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect[…]
I can feel the Twilight zeitgeist in the air tonight, perhaps it’s because I live across from the cinema and the line around the block and I hear them out[…]
Every time a new film by the Coen brothers comes out, I dread having to hear from the same old so-and-so’s who can’t bear to slog through the Coens’ peculiar[…]
Activist & Political · Directors · Interviews
“I’m shitting bricks, thinking he’s onto me.”
