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.”
Fun and Games: On Michael Haneke’s 2007 Remake of His 1997 Funny Games
“Should we enjoy beingmanipulated?”
Plumbing the Depths of Capitalism: On Force of Evil
“It was like going down to thebottom of the world”
Where Do We Find Ourselves? John Cassavetes’ Faces Turns 40
“How can one be a maverickindependent filmmaker, and be an attentive,lovinghusband and father?”
Activist & Political · Reviews
Fascism, American Style: Revisiting Kazan and Schulberg’s A Face in the Crowd
“Goodnight, you stupid idiots. Goodnight, you miserable slobs.”
Directors · Documentaries · Interviews
Paradise Betrayed: Talking with Terence Davies About Of Time and the City
“You can’t stop time. It stops you.”
Directors · Essays · Writers & Critics
Counter Clockwise: Or Lay Quiet Awhile with Ed and Id Molotov
Re-examining the Crossed Wires in Kubrick’s and Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange
A Real Director’s Cut: Cassavetes Edits Himself in The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
It is the subjective fever dreamof a psyche carving fantasy out of reality as he goes.”
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: La Roue, The Last Emperor, Lost in Beijing, Popeye the Sailor, Satantango, Vampyr
La Roue (Abel Gance, 1922) Abel Gance’s La Roue is a wild poem of a movie. French audiences saw the film at its 1922 premiere in four parts over three[…]
Think Globally, Role-play Locally: On Olivier Assayas’ Thriller Boarding Gate
“Its failures are what make it sowatchable.”
Blood, Sweat, and Canvas: How Barton Fink Can Set You Free
“All the world’s a hell ten feet square”
What’s Your Edition Number? The Replicanting of Blade Runner: Final Cut
“Ford’s mission seems of no particular consequence. You get the feeling of not getting anywhere of being part of the atmosphere of decay.”
Like Wildroot Cream Oil, it makes your hair stand on end!
Between this heavy stuff floating around about NASA guy Edgar Mitchell and now today, Clark C. McClelland. (No link, because of weird interference, but google his name and take your[…]
3 Westerns I Watched This Weekend
GOOD – Western Union (Fritz Lang 1941) This is one of Lang’s first color films. He shot it in Arizona’s Painted Desert with special attention to the natural scenery, and[…]
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