Once there was a protest against a satire about a film within a film…
I’m sure this is the fifteenth thing you’ve read today about the TROPIC THUNDER scandal, vis a vis “Once upon a time, there was a retard…” but if you haven’t,[…]
Experimental & Underground · Reviews
The Eye Like a Strange Balloon (Guy Maddin 1995)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSZYkv4Ad2Q] Canadian Guy Maddin is virtually unique among contemporary filmmakers in that despite having made nine features – including The Saddest Music in the World, Brand Upon the Brain, and[…]
Jack Hill Speaks
Director Jack Hill took the time to send along his thoughts on Noah Berlatsky’s article “Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish” in the most recent issue of Bright Lights. Hill,[…]
A Mad Tea Party – Alice in Wonderland (Jonathan Miller 1966)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrTfEk2P9nw] When it comes to Lewis Carroll adaptations, Tim Burton’s upcoming 3-D Alice has a lot of competition. The IMDB lists 24 versions of Alice in Wonderland, including Burton’s, and[…]
Music, Morricone, and Jack Nicholson’s Voice: The Soundscape of Wolf
“Suddenly my senses are all incredibly acute … I’m different, more alive, stronger … “
Ghosts of the Present: On Aditya Assarat’s Wonderful Town
“The film is both a bittersweetlove story and a memorial to the tsunami victims.”
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres
Men in Women-in-Prison: Masochism, Feminism, Fetish
“Nobody wants to pay to becastrated anymore.”
Across the Universe: Julie Taymor Made the Most Spectacular Film of the Year
Too bad nobody noticed
Getting Better All the Time: The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
But lose the red carpet
Directors · Horror · Interviews
Object in Mirror May Be Closer Than It Appears: Stuart Gordon Talks about Horror, the Absurd, and Stuck
“These two people are stuck in life.”
Queer Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Bubble to When I Knew
“The gays they make too much big crazy!”
To Slap a Dame: Sexual Violence in the Age of Reason
“Skip is the only one that enacts incest with one hand and bats away communists like flies from a dung pile with the other.”
Psycho: Queering Hitchcock’s Classic
We have met the cross-dressing closeted maniac, and he is us
The Misery Business: In Which Your Agent Will Be Lauren Bacall
And your ankles will still bebroken
Homeless on the Range: The Lusty Men and the “Great American Search”
“He’s always holding something back.”
The Kids Are Not All Right: Larry Clark on WassupRockers and More
“For me it was like, How do Imanipulate this kid so he can do this and he’s comfortable?, which isall part of directing.”
Counterculture · Directors · Interviews
The Mole Man: Going Underground with Alejandro Jodorowsky
“I think Spielberg is the son from when Walt Disney fucked Minnie Mouse.”
Iron Man Takes the “Reigns”: Robert Downey, Jr., Lookin’ Healthy
Racist and slow-moving, withoccasional cool shit
Activist & Political · Reviews · SF & Fantasy
“Heckuva Job, Tony!” Racism and Hegemony Rage in Iron Man
Kill a few Arabs and enjoy yourcheeseburger
George Sanders: A Mitigated Cad
“Where on the screen I aminvariably a sonofabitch, in life I am a dear, dear boy.”
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