Love and Frustration: Joseph McBride on I Loved Movies, But… and the Evolution of Film Education
By Jonathan Monovich. I've had good luck in my career by following my own interests/impulses. If you’re an ambulance chaser,
By Jonathan Monovich. I've had good luck in my career by following my own interests/impulses. If you’re an ambulance chaser,
By Jonathan Monovich. Now that we spend so much time not speaking to each other in person and relationships have
By Thomas M. Puhr. At a time when genre film has reached new heights of creativity and daring, audiences deserve so much more from one of the greatest directors...." The
A Book Review by William Blick. In addition to offering a production history, Stewart revisits an underseen and underappreciated contribution to the horror genre, in the military horror tradition." Niche-genre
By Thomas M. Puhr. Watching a character look around in bewildered awe as they first encounter the backrooms gets old pretty quick. How many times must we see someone gasp
A Book Review by John Talbird. Instead of throwing a heaping helping of film titles at us, substituting lists and anecdote for real analysis, each chapter takes a deep dive
By Mina Radovic. A visionary gangland highlighting a connection to Black America and ancient Egypt." Writer-director Yelena Popovic’s new film Moses the Black is a visionary gangland epic that turns
A Book Review by Thomas Gladysz. A detailed, well-wrought look into the comedian’s early career(s)...." Like Charlie Chaplin, there are more than a handful of books about Buster Keaton –
By William Blick. Made for about $200,000 through crowdfunding via way of Brooklyn, Revelations achieves the scope necessary for a fascinating, faithful telling of the spiritual and historic journey of
By Jenny Paola Ortega Castillo. Alex Cox, in what may be his final film, smartly reconfigures the classic theme of bureaucratic greed in Tsarist Russia into a bold, timely political
By Thomas M. Puhr. At a time when genre film has reached new heights of creativity and daring, audiences deserve so much more from one of the greatest directors….” The story goes that Stanley Kubrick, in the early stages of adapting The Shining, phoned Stephen King one morning to expound […]
By Jonathan Monovich. I’ve had good luck in my career by following my own interests/impulses. If you’re an ambulance chaser, you’re not going to be successful.” Born into a large Irish-Catholic family, Joseph McBride was raised by two newspaper reporters. Naturally, McBride followed in his parents’ footsteps to become a […]
A Book Review by William Blick. In addition to offering a production history, Stewart revisits an underseen and underappreciated contribution to the horror genre, in the military horror tradition.” Niche-genre critic and historian Danny Stewart explores the hybrid-genre entry Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, produced by Clive Barker with Anthony […]
By Jonathan Monovich. Now that we spend so much time not speaking to each other in person and relationships have become something filtered through technology, we actually are fascinated by people interacting. I think audiences get a thrill from films about people having to struggle through the complexity of relationships.” […]
By David Greven. Moving beyond caricature and never trying to goose the audience, Looking consistently offered quiet, introspective scenes like these that took character development and interaction further while maintaining a consistent style. For these reasons, the series remains a resonant touchstone that entices repeat viewings.” The English director Andrew […]
By Thomas M. Puhr. Watching a character look around in bewildered awe as they first encounter the backrooms gets old pretty quick. How many times must we see someone gasp as a part of their body disappears into that basement wall?” Splotchy, coagulated gray fills the screen. Is this an […]
A Book Review by John Talbird. Instead of throwing a heaping helping of film titles at us, substituting lists and anecdote for real analysis, each chapter takes a deep dive into one specific movie, contextualizing the film with the real-world effects of white flight, government abandonment of urban locales, urban […]
To celebrate the life of Larry Cohen (1936-2019), Film International will excerpt portions of Tony Williams’s interviews with the filmmaker from Larry Cohen: Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker, rev ed. (© 2015 Tony Williams by permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640. www.mcfarlandbooks.com). Larry Cohen (LC): With a little bit […]
By Ali Moosavi. I design the concepts and then within those concepts I leave the actors free…. As Béla Tarr has said, with interesting people and interesting locations you can make a good movie. I like to frame interesting people.” —Mohammad Shirvani At the 2008 Abu Dhabi Film Festival I watched […]
By Jonathan Monovich. Some paths are rocky, some paths are uphill, and some are downhill. Unique’s path is hopefully what makes this film special.” – The RZA To the RZA, the Abbot of the Wu-Tang Clan, “hip-hop is moviemaking.”1 This should come as no surprise. The iconic first Wu-Tang Clan album, […]