By Cleaver Patterson. ‘Masterpiece’ is a word used all to freely in the world of cinema, frequently to describe films which are less than deserving of such praise. So, when one emerges that truly warrants this epithet, like Brian De Palma’s erotic crime classic Dressed to Kill, the power of […]
The Life She Led: Anne Edwards
August 6, 2013
By Patrick McGilligan. Perhaps best known as a biographer of the rich and famous from across the spectrum, Anne Edwards has told the life stories of everyone from screen figures Shirley Temple, Judy Garland, Vivien Leigh and Ronald Reagan (her book Early Reagan was a Pulitzer Prize nominee) to the […]
FILM4 FrightFest 2013 | Returning to London’s Empire Cinema this August
August 6, 2013
By Cleaver Patterson. Running during the August bank holiday weekend each year at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square, the FILM4 FrightFest has now become a regular fixture on the annual horror film festival circuit. The event, celebrating its fourteenth anniversary this year, will be the biggest yet featuring […]
Alain Badiou’s Cinema (2013)
August 6, 2013
Book Review by Brandon Konecny. Since academia’s interest in cinema as an art form, philosophers have frequently proven to be some of the most insightful voices on the subject. Alain Badiou’s Cinema, accordingly, offers such an instance. For the first time in an English translation, the French philosopher’s over 50 […]
Life with Betty White: Performing the Authentic Proto-Feminist in Pioneering Early Television
August 6, 2013
By Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. Betty White has always been ahead of her time. This has been both a blessing and a curse. Most people, even scholars who specialize in television history, have little to no knowledge of the importance of Betty White in early live television, in the invention of […]
Berlinale 2013 Festival Report
August 2, 2013
By Steven Yates. There have been mutterings on the inside (chiefly from journalists and critics) that the Berlinale has become somewhat predictable in recent years, particularly compared to its immediate annual predecessor Rotterdam. For a long while now, with undoubted conscientiousness, the Berlinale has programmed plentiful films from the war […]
Fruitvale Station (2013)
August 1, 2013
By Jacob Mertens. I cannot write a review for Fruitvale Station without having the recent verdict of the George Zimmerman trial dig at my sides, seeking some corresponding resonance. The risk here is that I let Ryan Coogler’s film become something more than it ought to be: a simple portrait […]
Upside Down (2012)
July 31, 2013
By Kimberly Behzadi. Upside Down follows the love story of two young people pulled apart by opposing forces. After a floundering theatrical release in early March this year, the film, written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas, has found a small following on the digital platform and is available on […]
Ice (1970) & Milestones (1975)
July 30, 2013
By Celluloid Liberation Front. “No hungry man who is also sober can be persuaded to use his last dollar for anything but food. But a well-fed, well-clad, well-sheltered and otherwise well-tended person can be persuaded as between an electric razor and an electric toothbrush. Along with prices and costs, consumer […]
Inside The Asylum: The Outlaw Studio That Changed Hollywood
July 25, 2013
By Wheeler Winston Dixon. “Anyone can make a $100 million dollar movie, but to shoot a feature film in 12-14 days, with a budget that’s probably less than the phone bill on a major studio film is monumental. To do it every four weeks and then release the film three […]