By Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. I begin, as my title suggests, with a quote from Agnès Godard, the cinematographer of Beau Travail (1999): “The most inexhaustible landscapes for me remain faces and bodies” (Vincentelli 2000: 166). The inexhaustible possibilities for cinematically inhabiting the homoeroticized male body are remarkable in Beau Travail, […]
“Rip It Up and Start Again:” Scream 4 and Post-?
September 9, 2013
By Will Dodson. Wes Craven’s Scream 4 is in many ways a fitting capstone to the 9/11 decade, thus the title of this essay, “Rip it up and start again: Scream 4 and Post-?”[1] “Rip it up and start again” is a lyric from the great post-punk band, Orange Juice, […]
Looking with Julia’s Eyes: Gender, Spectatorship, and Contemporary Spanish Horror Cinema
September 6, 2013
By Ian Olney. Over the past decade or so, the Spanish horror film has undergone a striking renaissance. During the final years of the Franco regime, in the 1960s and 1970s, horror cinema flourished in Spain, producing such genre icons as Jess Franco, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Amando de Ossorio, and […]
Nosferatu (1922)
September 6, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Some films have, since their first release, entered into the realms of mythical cinema. Whether due to their technical achievements, performances or simply by dint of that inexplicable quality that makes the film viewing experience magical, these movies have outlived their contemporaries to become the stuff of […]
The Symbolic, the Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (2012)
September 4, 2013
A Book Review by Brandon Konecny. Slavoj Žižek is by far one of the most prominent intellectuals active today, gaining much of his popularity from his frequent engagement with popular culture, expansive bibliography, and endlessly entertaining lectures. To the chagrin of figures like David Bordwell, the Slovenian philosopher—perhaps the small […]
Film4 FrightFest 2013 | Day 4
September 4, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Horror that derives from the everyday and mundane is frequently one of the most disturbing types, particularly if it falls under the guise of a holiday—whether its an innocent weekend away, an annual excursion or a trip to your seaside bolt-hole in order to escape the city […]
The World’s End (2013)
September 3, 2013
By Jacob Mertens. In film, there are any number of ways the world can end: zombies wreak havoc across the globe, colossal monsters terrorize earth from an inter-dimensional riff in our ocean’s depths, the biblical apocalypse forces mid-grade celebrities to bunker down in James Franco’s house and whine incessantly about […]
Alice Guy’s La Vie du Christ: A Feminist Vision of the Christ Tale
By Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Alice Guy is a filmmaker whose body of work is still a site of contestation for modern critics; after all these years, her name is nearly unknown. Yet her output was prodigious. Of the nearly four hundred films Guy directed between 1896 and 1920, Guy has […]
Wong Kar-wai: a Cantonese Auteur
September 2, 2013
By Shashank Saurav. “Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it’s the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.” (Wong Kar-wai) Hong Kong is a […]
We’re the Millers (2013)
September 2, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. There will always be drawbacks for any actor appearing in a film alongside Jennifer Aniston, the main one being that you shall inevitably have to take second-billing to everyone’s favorite friend. Director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s new comedy We’re the Millers may co-star successful funny man Jason Sudeikis, […]