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November 21, 2021
The Ethical Problems In Peter Brook’s Tell Me Lies
In 1968 Peter Brook made a documentary about the movement against Britain’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The film has that loose avant-garde style of […]
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The Ethical Problems In Peter Brook’s Tell Me Lies
In 1968 Peter Brook made a documentary about the movement against Britain’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The film has that loose avant-garde style of […]
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November 18, 2021
An Analysis Of A 4 Minute Sexually Explicit Video
I recently watched an odd video I found on a porn site. It was the title that enticed me to click on it, Playing With Things […]
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November 11, 2021
The Turkish Mockbuster
There is nothing like the feeling of standing at the edge of a rabbit hole and feeling the cool breeze around your ankles as it […]
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November 10, 2021
Don’t Tell Me How It Ends
Compare these two experiences. Some random citizen is walking down the street in 1960 looking for a way to spend the afternoon. On the next […]
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November 10, 2021
The Bruce Lee Problem
Without placing blame on the man himself it is unfortunate that Bruce Lee’s stardom often eclipses the many other skilled actors and practitioners of the […]
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November 10, 2021
Feminist Themes In Frankenhooker
Frankenhooker, written and directed by Frank Henenlotter, fits easily into the is a 1980’s counter culture horror genre. It shares stylistic and thematic material with films […]
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November 10, 2021
Psycho, Taxi Driver, and Maniac: A Formal Comparison
The 1981 film Maniac definitely owes a debt to both Psycho and Taxi Driver. Its a strange set of films to compare but they do have some core commonality. Alienation […]
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November 10, 2021
Hollywood’s Brand of Feminism
Hollywood’s idea of feminism is a woman behaving like a man. The approach leaves the stereotypical gender roles unchallenged and then simply gives a female […]
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November 10, 2021
Entertainment And The Films Of Akira Kurosawa And Ingmar Bergman
There is a long held principle in film criticism that the entertainment value of a movie is in some way set in opposition to its […]
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November 8, 2021
The Role of the Environment in Onibaba and Woman In The Dunes.
Between the films Onibaba (Kaneto Shindo in 1964) and Woman In the Dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara in 1964) there are only five characters and two locations. Both films are striped […]
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November 8, 2021
A Comparison of I Spit on Your Grave, The Last House On The Left and Ms. 45
I Spit on Your Grave (1978), The Last House On The Left (1972) and Ms. 45 (1981) all fit within the grindhouse genre and further within the subgenera of rape […]
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November 8, 2021
Self Awareness in Rear Window vs. The Tenant
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Roman Polanski’s The Tenant are both films about observing and being observed. Rear Window was released in 1954 and The Tenant was released two decades later in 1976. […]
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November 8, 2021
Deadpan as a Filming Technique in Roy Anderson’s Films
Deadpan is not ordinarily ascribed to a style of filmmaking. It is more often associated with the lack of emotion on an actor’s face during […]
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November 8, 2021
The Manipulation of Sympathy in Parasite and Us.
In his movie Psycho, Hitchcock famously had Marion Crane, played by the movie’s biggest star Janet Leigh, murdered in the first third of the film. The audience […]
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November 5, 2021
Jean Luc-Godard and Charlie Parker, No Spoon Full of Sugar For You
George Bernard Shaw said of Richard Wagner “He’s better than he sounds.” This could be said about both Jean Luc-Godard and Charlie Parker. Both men […]
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November 4, 2021
The New Equine Cinema
Breathlessly, ardently I beseech you all to harken to my call. Let me be the harbinger of a cinema most revolutionary! It has come to […]
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