By Yun-hua Chen. Every time we meet the standard expectation of what the film should be, or shouldn’t do, we kind of push it a little harder until it comes to this devastating end. I think a lot of people aren’t always prepared for it.” In The Long Walk, the […]
Morbius: The Bad Taste of Bat Guano
By Elias Savada. A nonsensical Frankenstein/Dracula/Jekyll & Hyde mashup from Marvel.” There are not a lot of good things to say about the latest marginal Marvel character to hit the big screen, and plenty of bad ones. This sidebar effort — a nonsensical Frankenstein/Dracula/Jekyll & Hyde mashup — is from […]
Notes on “The Women Behind Hitchcock”
By Robert K. Lightning. Seeking to identify signature elements in Joan Harrison’s and Alma Reville’s work but also intertextual correspondences between their independent work and their collaborations with Hitchcock….” In August of 2021, New York’s Film Forum resumed its pre-closure series “The Women Behind Hitchcock”, a series devoted to examining […]
Film Scratches: March 2022
Film Scratches is a blog by David Finkelstein focusing on the world of experimental and avant-garde film, especially as practiced by individual artists. It features a mixture of reviews, interviews, and essays. The Mathematics of Epiphany: Haiku (2020) Haiku is a breathtaking, thrilling exploration of Japanese poetry, culture, and sensibility, by German composer […]
Bruce Willis: One-Day Wonder – An Interview with Edward Drake on Gasoline Alley
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 […]