The advent of cinema created a world where artists could create moving portraits, an artistic medium not bound my any form of limitations. Rarely a film is created that holds a transgressive quality, the ability to move you completely out of your comfort zone and violate the standard laws of filmmaking. Beasts of the Southern […]
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Rainer Fassbinder Retrospective (Nearly) Over At The American Cinematheque
What a pleasure it has been to wallow in the 16-film Fassbinder retrospective this past two weeks. For various reasons it’s not been easy to see his films in the theater, but now that distributers Janus hold this selection of (very nice) subtitled prints, one can hope that they’ll resurface more frequently. The second […]
Thoughts, Theory, and Lore with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
**SPOILER ALERT** –The following piece contains spoilers, lots of spoilers, about “Prometheus” (2012, Ridley Scott). If you have not seen the film I highly suggest you avoid reading any further. What you will find below are my own personal thoughts, conjectures, and to be completely honest, fan-girl ramblings that may, or may not, make any […]
LA Film Fest Preview: A Band Called Death (Dir. Jeff Howlett and Mark Covino USA 2012)
When Drag City announced a couple of years ago that they were releasing a long-lost early ‘70s album by a band you never heard of, named Death, comprising three black brothers from Detroit who made punk rock years before anyone else, the knee-jerk reaction was to assume this was just hipster bait. But your (my) […]
Film Rave: Henning Mankell’s Wallander: The Revenge (Dir. Charlotte Brandstrom 2009)
It has taken over two years for Charlotte Brandstrom’s Wallander: The Revenge to gain theatrical distribution in the U.S., and it has been worth the wait. The Swedish film is a continuation of the highly successful novels written by Henning Mankell that feature the main character Kurt Wallander, a Swedish police detective. Instead of merely […]