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February 13, 2022
Favorite Scenes No.27: The Last Emperor
You never know what will strike a chord and stay fixed in your memory but often it is something small and specific. When it […]
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January 23, 2022
The Mask: A Kinda Jungian Horror Thingy
The Mask was made in 1961 the year that Carl Jung died. There are four writers credited for the story that The Mask was based on: Franklin Delessert, […]
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January 12, 2022
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce,1080 Bruxelles is a difficult film to watch. It’s painfully bereft of life. It is a slow, methodical, […]
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January 9, 2022
The Pathological Ravings of Masumura’s Blind Beast
I don’t know what I can say or what anyone can say about Yasuzô Masumura’s movie Blind Beast except that it is pathological. I don’t know […]
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January 2, 2022
Red Paint, Entitlement AndChocolate Cake = Criminally Insane
Criminally Insane has that special grindhouse funk that makes you want to take a shower when it’s over. It’s an odiferous melange of low budget, in […]
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December 19, 2021
Silent Night Deadly Night And The Rise Of The Surveillance State
Silent Night Deadly Night is a mean-spirited film that revels in its own bitter nastiness. For someone who has had to endure 53 Christmases, It’s a […]
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December 12, 2021
Masumura’s Dark And Bloody Irezumi
Despite its appearance Irezumi is not a chanbara (swordplay) film. It shares many of the trappings of the genre, but it is far more brutal than […]
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December 5, 2021
Favorite Scene №26: Aguirre The Wrath of God
In 1972 Werner Herzog dragged his pet mad man Klaus Kinski and a small group of actors to Peru to shoot Aguirre The Wrath of […]
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November 28, 2021
The Empty Oddity Of Doris Wishman’s Indecent Desires
What a strange film Indecent Desires is. There isn’t much to it. There is just a handful of undeveloped characters and even fewer locations. There isn’t […]
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November 24, 2021
A Visual Summary Of A Porn Version Of MJ’s Thriller
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November 21, 2021
Lifeboat Is Not Like Other Hitchcock Films
If I were shown Lifeboat and asked who directed it I never would have guessed Alfred Hitchcock. Perhaps it was John Steinbeck’s having written the story […]
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November 21, 2021
Favorite Scenes №1: Nosferatu
In 1922 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau filmed the climactic end to his film Nosferatu. Our heroine, Ellen, sits cowering in her bed as the vampire enters her […]
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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 14, 2021
The Brick Dollhouse: Girls Who Want Boys Who Like Boys To Be Girls Who Do Boys
The Brick Dollhouse is so dull and pointless it gets bored of itself. Scenes go on and on until the editor just can’t bear it any […]
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November 11, 2021
Wild Zero: A Cross Cultural Meat Grinder
In 1954 Godzilla lumbered out of the ocean to deliver the message that the coming nuclear age would bring terrifying consequences, but Japan had already suffered […]
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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
Baxter, A Dog and His Boy
There are so many different ways to engage Baxter, a film directed by Jérôme Boivin in 1989. Its a political film about our relationship to […]
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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
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 9, 2021
The Glory That Is Child Of Peach
Child of Peach has a frantic enthusiasm rarely seen on screen. In 1987 Taiwanese directors Chung-Hsing Chao and Chen Chun-Liang took an old Japanese folktale and […]
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November 8, 2021
Space Mutiny Is A Crime In More Than One Way
Wait? What? I don’t understand. What the fuck am I watching? These were my first thoughts during the opening scenes of Space Mutiny. It can be […]
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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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