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In Defense of MeaningThere is surely an irony in trying define three words each which stem from movements that problematized meaning. All three movements recognize […]

October 6, 2021

Tomu Uchida’s Beautiful Film Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow

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Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow is based on a Japanese folktale. It is not a hero’s journey but Joseph Campbell would recognize the narrative elements involving […]

October 6, 2021

Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 7

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October 5, 2021

Schoolgirl Report Series: Germany's Guilty Pleasure

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Ah! The School Girl Report series from Germany, sigh. There are 14 of these gems spanning the entirety of the 70’s, the golden decade of […]

October 5, 2021

Sex Wars: A Pornographic Parody of Star Wars, Sort Of

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Sex Wars presents itself as a pornographic parody of Star Wars but that isn’t really what it is. For starters, the plot is based on a Star Trek episode from […]

October 5, 2021

Samira Makhmalbaf’s The Two Legged Horse

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At first, The Two Legged Horse feels like a set-up for a reasonably conventional film about two young boys coming of age in Afghanistan. It has the look […]

October 5, 2021

Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body And Soul

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White is not a color. White is generated by the presence of the full spectrum of visible light. Figuratively, white can be seen as a […]

October 5, 2021

The Incredible Shrinking Man Is Much More Than A B-Movie

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When I sat down to watch the Incredible Shrinking Man I was expecting a typical Roger Corman style B-movie or a Rod Serling style Twilight Zone episode. The novel, The […]

October 5, 2021

Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 8

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October 5, 2021

The Whip vs. Satan

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The film opens with footage of The Whip cracking his trademark weapon on the steps of an Aztec pyramid. As he gives the air around […]

October 4, 2021

Long Before Come And See Klimov Made Welcome, Or No Trespassing

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In 1964 the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev, was “dismissed” and replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. Meanwhile, director Elem Klimov […]

October 4, 2021

Lichtenstein & Camus At The Movies Volume 9

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October 4, 2021

Assignment Terror

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Yes, Assignment Terror is campy, that’s why I watched it, but it wasn’t just a low-budget Spanish horror film, it was also incredibly stupid. When you sit […]

October 4, 2021

Sean Baker’s Tangerine

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Sean Baker’s film Tangerine (2015) is a wonderful shot in the arm for the world of low budget, independent film. Personally I much preferred this film with […]

October 4, 2021

War of The Wizards

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In 1978 Japanese director Sadamasa Arikawa and Hong Kong director Mei Chun Chang met up in Taiwan to create the international extravaganza War of the Wizards. […]