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Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Romeo, Julia a tma) (Jiri Weiss, 1960) & The Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech) (Jan Nemec, 1966) Jiri Weiss’ Holocaust drama,Romeo, Juliet and[…]
Actors & Personalities · Artists
“You’d never get tired of having her around, because she’d always be someone else for you.” The reasons for Irene Dunne’s continuing, undeserved obscurity are fairly well known. Nearly all[…]
Up shit creek without a Pichon Longueville ’47 The recent release of Ronald Reagan’s White House Diaries has produced the usual snickers from the usual suspects — the self-appointed, self-anointed[…]
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish?” The leader of a pro-immigrant political group and sometime terrorist organization called The Fishes, Julian[…]
Pause. N-o-o-o-o-t! “Variety reports that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have teamed to produce a trilogy of Tintin feature films, with each director helming at least one of the features.”[…]
Historical & Epic · Movies · Reviews
What’s Greek history without distortions, inaccuracies, and falsehoods? In the western Aegean, in a narrow pass by the Gulf of Malis, 300 Spartans and their Hellenic allies, led by King[…]
Genres · Horror · Movies · Reviews
Look familiar? When considering any contemporary zombie film, it is virtually impossible to resist comparison to the work of George A. Romero. Although many directors within the genre attempt to[…]
“Lazarus doesn’t pathologize the locked-in gaze, he lets us feel it.” In a pornographic film, what’s gratuitous is not sex but complexity and involvement. An erotic film can confuse us[…]
On Black Book and his recent Hollywood defection Known for big-budget Hollywood vehicles like RoboCop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers, Dutch director Paul Verhoeven had his greatest success with the white-hot erotic[…]
From neighborhood festival to NYC player There’s no denying the buzz of New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, a 12-day extravaganza spread out among 13 venues. Out in force at the[…]
DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground · Reviews
Autobiography sometimes trumps art in these uneven works Su Friedrich is a disciplined and highly skilled filmmaker who teaches school (film and video production at Princeton, to be precise) and[…]
“There’s no overt sexuality to Rawang’s care for Hsiao Kang. It’s a tender act of love, a selfless giving of himself to another.” With I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone[…]
“I hate the idea that film is actually telling a story!” A striking division in the Cannes film festival this year: between films that offer dark, bleak (read: despairing, nihilistic)[…]
Eat first, talk later? If only! Yep, those fairies at the Magic Kingdom are at it again. They’re tryin’ to talk all us straight-thinkin’ folks from Middle America into respecting[…]
“We couldn’t figure out how to divide the cat . . .” Queer documentaries have had a special place in homo history at least since 1978’s Word Is Out, the pioneering showcase[…]
Ecce homo I looked at him closely and more quickly (one can, without taking one’s eyes off an object, look very quickly. At that moment my “gaze” swooped down on[…]
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
It came from San Francisco This is the first of a two-part article exploring how hard-core porn evolved through the efforts of Jim and Artie Mitchell and other pioneers, with[…]
DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals · Reviews
“It flashes before our eyes, and we are not even sure what we have witnessed.” There is an incongruous moment in Please Leave Quietly (2006), the long-awaited concert DVD from[…]
“Like the implicit struggle between Salome and Herod, it becomes unclear as to who serves whom.” The Night Porter is an explicit film full of implicators, implications and implicitness. Director[…]
Art for [PAM]’s sake The “Perpetual Art machine” [PAM] is a new media project begun in 2005 that presents the work of a large number of video artists as pieces[…]
