By Ali Moosavi. Pay [Bruce Willis] a million bucks for one or maximum two days work…. Though you may only have eight or nine minutes of useable footage, you follow certain rules: show [him] very early in the film, use him in as many locations as you can.” If you’ve […]
Call for Papers – Film and Economics in the 21st Century (Special Issue of FilmInt, 2023)
March 28, 2022
CfP: Film and Economics in the 21st Century: paradigms and disruptive proposals in non-English-language cinemas Edited by André Rui Graça (LabCom/University of Beira Interior, Portugal; CEIS-20/University of Coimbra, Portugal) andPaulo Cunha (LabCom/University of Beira Interior, Portugal; INCT Rede Proprietas, Brazil) Deadline for Abstracts: June 30, 2022Subject Fields: Colonial and Post-Colonial […]
Family Affairs: Boston Underground Film Festival 2022
By Thomas Puhr. A common theme – be it literally or metaphorically – at this year’s festival was the dissolution of the family (or family-like) unit. The packaging of this theme, however, ranged from surreal body horror, to supernatural coming-of-age tales, to true-crime docudramas.” This year’s Boston Underground Film Festival […]
A Onesie Doozie: Fun in The Lost City
By Elias Savada. A ridiculous, fun-filled romp about an illusion behind an illusion.” We’re overdue for some Sandra Bullock silliness. After her recent excursions in dramatic horror (Bird Box, 2018) and last year’s crime drama The Unforgivable, both direct-to-streaming on Netflix, she/we needed some big screen romantic comedy relief she […]
A Kung Fu Triumph: Arrow Delivers Action, History with Shawscope, Volume One
By Jeremy Carr. All involved on this set from Arrow Video make a strong case for how remarkably varied and complex these movies were, from the economic, political, and social conditions of their making to the thrilling end results.” If the casual moviegoer is even remotely aware of the Shaw […]
Of Matriarchs and Magic: Kate Dolan on You Are Not My Mother
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. I hate the use of “strong” as a constant descriptor for female characters, it feels so one-dimensional…. I just took inspiration from all the women I’ve known in my life and they can be strong, but also weak, they can be stubborn but also thoughtful.” It’s Samhain […]
Trick and Treat: The Outfit Shines Brightly
By Elias Savada. Yes, there’s a theatrical cadence in the clever dialogue, but it’s such a highly original, suspenseful piece that it works magic as the characters move about their set.” Leonard Burling is a quiet, sad-eyed, precise, and observant man – an old-school, Savile Row cutter by trade, with […]
Embracing Multiplicity: Pushpendra Singh’s The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs (Laila Aur Satt Geet)
By Varsha Ramachandran. The pace, while slow, is steady, ensuring reflection without boredom, something to which the beautiful frames, colour combinations, and lilting score also contribute.” Director Pushpendra Singh’s second film adapting Rajasthani writer Vidaydan Detha’s works, The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs, which premiered at the 70th annual Berlinale, […]
Hard Times – Big Bad John: The John Milius Interviews
A Book Review by Matthew Sorrento. Oh, what can you do with a man like that?” John Cheever, “Goodbye My Brother” And what can we do with John Milius, a writer-director so stubbornly Right-wing in his views: do we urge viewers adamantly to embrace or to resist him? He’s undoubtedly […]
Worlds of Tiny Pain: On Laura Wandel’s Playground and Jay Rosenblatt’s When We Were Bullies
By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Rosenblatt’s documentary is a frank self-assessment that resituates an otherwise easily forgotten misstep of youth in the context of the knowledge and experience of adulthood…. [while] When We Were Bullies strips away the soft surfaces of nostalgia to remind us with a near visceral intensity of the […]