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Screen and Canvas – Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice by Lucy Fischer »

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Given their ubiquity in the public consciousness (who wouldn’t recognize The Son of Man’s [1964] bowler-hatted gentleman with an apple covering his…

The Poetry and Politics of Dropping Balls: J-P Valkeapää’s Dogs Don’t Wear Pants »

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. In some of its most famous forays into mainstream cinema, BDSM seems to almost instantly bestow some filmmakers with the belief they have found a…

Mrs. Steve Austin: The Bionic Woman and The Woman’s Film »

Some Grace Notes from Tarantino: Thoughts on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood »

By Christopher Sharrett. Those who know me will be shocked to read this piece, a partial valuation of Quentin Tarantino’s last film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I…

The “Russian Griffith” with Jarring Physicality – The Bolshevik Trilogy: Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin (Flicker Alley) »

By John Duncan Talbird. Vsevolod Pudovkin entered Moscow University to study physical chemistry at the age of seventeen. His studies were disrupted by the start of World War…

Looking Out, Looking In – Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form by Robert B. Pippin »

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. It’s hard to make the mental jump from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to, say, Douglas Sirk, but Robert B. Pippin pulls off…

Into the Heart of War: Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Cranes Are Flying »

By Jeremy Carr. According to Ian Christie, Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Cranes Are Flying is “in many ways the most important post-war Soviet film.” Christie, who is interviewed for…

Joseph Losey’s British Apocalypse: The Damned by Nick Riddle »

By Tony Williams. This short, but concise 120-page monograph belongs to a developing series initiated by Auteur Publishing: Constellations: Studies in Science Fiction Film and TV. Akin to…

Conflict in the Bubble of a Boarding School: Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades »

By Gary M. Kramer. Writer/director Tayarisha Poe’s feature debut, Selah and the Spades, is a precisely calibrated spellbinder. Anchored by an exacting performance by Lovie Simone as the…

Dueling Identities: An Interview with The Quarry Writer-Director Scott Teems »

By Ali Mossavi. Review Scott Teems, The Quarry’s director who, together with Andrew Brotzman, adapted Damon Galgut’s novel for the screen, hammers home one of the main themes…

Nightmare of Cinematic History: An Interview with Matthew Rankin on The Twentieth Century (2019) »

By Yun-hua Chen. After winning Canadian Best First Festure at the Toronto International Film Festival and Best Film at the Los Cabos International Film Festival, The Twentieth Century…

Festival Reports

Berlinale 2020: Spotlight on New Iranian Cinema »

By Ali Moosavi. There were four films made by Iranian directors in this year’s Berlin Film Festival, shown at four different festival sections: Panorama, Forum, Generation and Berlinale (Main Competition). Mohammad Rasoulof’s There…

By Ali Moosavi. San Sebastian is a beautiful coastal town in the Basque region of Spain. It has one of the oldest film festivals in the world which somehow has not become as…

By Gary M. Kramer. There are 40 shorts screening in six programs (as well as in front of features) at this year’s AFI Fest presented by Audi. Here are ten highlights from the…

By Ali Moosavi. Three interesting documentaries screened at the Open City Documentary Festival in London, September 4-10, 2019. Sergei Loznitsa, the distinguished Ukrainian director known for films such as A Gentle Creature (2017) and…

By Mina Radovic. A lady patiently cleans her house. The yellow lights of Athens peer in through the windows as her husband smokes a cigarette and between puffs complains to her about his…

By Gary M. Kramer. Two shorts programs at this year’s New York Film Festival are designed to provoke audiences. This is a welcome approach to short films, where the format encourages experimentation. As…

By Gary M. Kramer. At the 2019 AFI Docs Film Festival this year, five provocative shorts and features tackled important topics ranging from the drug crisis and immigration to the creationism debate and…

By Gary M. Kramer. Now in its 21st year, the Maryland Film Festival in Baltimore is a showcase for eclectic independent features, shorts, and documentaries. This year’s program features films both homegrown and far-flung.…

Interview

Schizophrenic “Downstairs” and “Upstairs”: Filmmaker Vaughn Stein on Inheritance »

By Ali Moosavi. British writer-director Vaughn Stein’s feature film debut was Terminal (2018), starring Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg, Mike…

By Gary M. Kramer. The Tribeca Film Festival sadly did not take place this year because of the global…

By Gary M. Kramer. Our Mothers is a somber but powerful drama getting a virtual theatrical release on May…

By Ali Mossavi. Review Scott Teems, The Quarry’s director who, together with Andrew Brotzman, adapted Damon Galgut’s novel for…

By Gary M. Kramer. French filmmaker Laurent Maria started his career as an actor—he appeared in several theatrical productions…

By Yun-hua Chen. After winning Canadian Best First Festure at the Toronto International Film Festival and Best Film at…

By Ali Moosavi. A welcome fact at San Sebastian was that women film directors were conspicuous by their presence…

By Amir Ganjavie. A la Police, Adjective (2009) and with a tough of noir style, Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers introduces us…

By Tom Ue. The opening of Dragonheart Vengeance (2020) juxtaposes two seemingly unrelated narratives. First, we learn of the…

By Areum Jeong. Korean filmmaker Kim Tae-yong made his directorial debut in 1999 with Memento Mori (directed with Min Kyu-dong), the…

By Matthew Fullerton. Tunisia is no stranger to film festivals. Well before its 2011 Jasmine Revolution, which toppled a…

Tony Williams: Thank you for publishing this interview. There may be hope for this “ugly society” if more...
Matthew Sorrento: Reading about this “misfit” cowboy narrator, I can’t help wonder if the Coens...
Matthew Sorrento: This sounds like an interesting mediation on the politics of gender and, more specifically, our...
Melinda: Great interview, John! I enjoyed the specificity of your questions as well as the conversational style of...
Matthew Sorrento: I agree with Tony, Daniel — thanks for commenting on the issues this film addresses. This...

Review

Screen and Canvas – Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice by Lucy Fischer »

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Given their ubiquity in the public consciousness (who wouldn’t recognize The Son of Man’s [1964] bowler-hatted gentleman with an apple covering his face?), it…

Praise and Loathing in Bozeman, Montana: The Rabbi Goes West »

By Elias Savada. I’ve known critic-archivist-filmmaker Gerald Peary for at least a dozen years. He sought me out in 2007 to do some copyright research, and I’ve worked for him…

The Poetry and Politics of Dropping Balls: J-P Valkeapää’s Dogs Don’t Wear Pants »

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. In some of its most famous forays into mainstream cinema, BDSM seems to almost instantly bestow some filmmakers with the belief they have found a one-way ticket…

Move Over Hallmark, Here Comes The High Note »

By Elias Savada. In a pandemic-free world, The High Note would have been playing in movie theaters, maybe to decent business but not stellar success. The coronavirus playbook for every…

Wild at Heart: Philip Barantini’s Villain »

By Thomas Puhr. The latest poster for Philip Barantini’s Villain (2020) smacks of an effort to reach as broad an audience as possible. Adorned by flames and sporting a stylish…

The Case of the Poorly Hidden Bunker: Vaughn Stein’s Inheritance »

By Thomas Puhr. The opening montage of Vaughn Stein’s Inheritance (2020) exposes a fundamental flaw: in a sequence that juxtaposes DA Lauren Monroe (Lily Collins) sparring in court, Congressman William…

Nailing a DIY Debut: Mark Jenkin’s Bait »

By Ali Moosavi. In the old days, in most cases the decision to whether to shoot a film in colour or black and white was determined by budget and economics.…

Told It Slant – The Nosferatu Story by Rolf Giesen »

A Book Review by Tony Williams. Usually, I have a fondness for direct-to-library publishers such as Bear Manor, McFarland, and Scarecrow since they often provide a very important service in…

The “Russian Griffith” with Jarring Physicality – The Bolshevik Trilogy: Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin (Flicker Alley) »

By John Duncan Talbird. Vsevolod Pudovkin entered Moscow University to study physical chemistry at the age of seventeen. His studies were disrupted by the start of World War I where…

Looking Out, Looking In – Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form by Robert B. Pippin »

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. It’s hard to make the mental jump from Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel to, say, Douglas Sirk, but Robert B. Pippin pulls off such connections…

Into the Heart of War: Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Cranes Are Flying »

By Jeremy Carr. According to Ian Christie, Mikhail Kalatozov’s The Cranes Are Flying is “in many ways the most important post-war Soviet film.” Christie, who is interviewed for the Criterion…

Joseph Losey’s British Apocalypse: The Damned by Nick Riddle »

By Tony Williams. This short, but concise 120-page monograph belongs to a developing series initiated by Auteur Publishing: Constellations: Studies in Science Fiction Film and TV. Akin to those BFI…

Time Warp Documentary Steps Through Cult Film History »

By Rod Lott. Pop quiz, hotshot: What makes a film a cult film? A. They have a quality of danger. B. It has to be the audience finding the film,…

Conflict in the Bubble of a Boarding School: Tayarisha Poe’s Selah and the Spades »

By Gary M. Kramer. Writer/director Tayarisha Poe’s feature debut, Selah and the Spades, is a precisely calibrated spellbinder. Anchored by an exacting performance by Lovie Simone as the title character,…

Hybridity Challenging “Un-Filmable”: The Story of Temple Drake (Criterion Collection) »

By Tony Williams. This adaptation of William Faulkner’s notorious novel Sanctuary (1931) first appeared as a Paramount production in 1933, a year before the imposition of the notorious Hays Code,…

A One-Joke Film Sucking It Up: Butt Boy »

By Gary M. Kramer. Director, co-writer, and star Tyler Cornack’s Butt Boy is a one joke sci-fi comedy thriller. Discerning viewers intrigued by this title will find this low-budget, high-concept…

A Stranger in a Strange Land: Never Rarely Sometimes Always »

By Elias Savada. Now, more than ever, films that you’d expect to find in your Sadly Infrequently Occasionally Constantly attended art house cinemas aren’t there because of the Covid-19 crisis.…

A Distinctive Vision – Second Sight: The Selected Film Writing of Adam Mars-Jones »

By Jeremy Carr. There’s no denying Adam Mars-Jones has amassed a considerable resume of writing experience. The research professor at Goldsmiths, University of London has penned novels, essays, a memoir,…

Stuck in the Sprawl: Lorcan Finnegan’s Vivarium »

By Thomas Puhr. With just two features under their belts, director Lorcan Finnegan and writer Garret Shanley have already mapped out a distinct approach to genre filmmaking. “Mapped” is the…

All Senses Considered – Contemporary Film Directors: Lucrecia Martel by Gerd Gemünden »

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. I received Gerd Gemünden’s Contemporary Film Directors: Lucrecia Martel without having seen a single film by the titular artist. To say I’ve been missing…

Light and Silly: Love Type D »

By Elias Savada. Love Type D is a light, silly satire that could use a little more development in its wacky plotline. Still, the feature debut from writer-director Sasha Collington…

By Elias Savada. World premiering at the DC Independent Film Festival, director-writer Kevin Tran’s feature debut brews up a disconcerting cross-sampling of…

By Gary M. Kramer. Jennie Livingston’s vibrant, groundbreaking 1990 documentary, Paris Is Burning, about the Harlem drag-ball scene, has been digitally remastered…

By Gary M. Kramer. The Burnt Orange Heresy purports itself to be the power of the critic in shaping the experience of…

By Thomas Gladysz. We are going to see why Rudolph Valentino got his first star billing, in a picture called Blood and…

By Elias Savada. Director Flavio Alves’s indie feature The Garden Left Behind is all about dreamers, whether they are transgender people looking…

By Rod Lott. One month after releasing 1998’s Edge of the Axe on Blu-ray, Arrow Video returns to the José Ramón Larraz…

By Thomas Puhr. You hear before you see anything: a muffled gurgling noise accompanies the black screen over which the opening credits…

By Jeremy Carr. Douglas MacLean is hardly a household name, even among those who consider themselves ardent enthusiasts of silent cinema. It’s…

By Michael Sandlin. In this, the third and final entry of Chilean exile filmmaker Patricio Guzman’s documentary trilogy poetically examining his native…

By Gary M. Kramer. We (aka Wij), now available on DVD and Blu-ray from Artsploitation Films, is being billed as a shocking…

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Recently appearing on both Cahiers du Cinéma’s top 10 of 2010-2019 and Variety’s list of the…

By Margaret C. Flinn. The New Wave cast a shadow that extends far beyond influencing French film of the late 1950s-early 1960s. That is…

By Brandon Konecny. Moldova has a fascinating recent history, and Leontina Vatamanu is perhaps its most articulate cinematic chronicler. Poke through her…

By Rod Lott. By the time the 1980s settled into middle age, the Gothic and/or supernatural horrors in which José Ramón Larraz…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. To say that the US premiere of cult filmmaker Richard Stanley’s much-awaited return to feature filmmaking was one of…

By Gary M. Kramer. The 1959 classic drama, Room at the Top, based on John Braine’s “angry young man” novel, has just…

By Jeremy Carr. When Montu (Dwiju Bhawal), the youngest of four children in a Bengalese family, returns home after having been injured…

By Michael Sandlin. After narrowly avoiding being nicked by the UK authorities for supposed “document theft” during the filming of his Troubles…

By Ali Moosavi. Death has been a popular theme for filmmakers to explore almost ever since cinema was invented. Some of the…

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Hear the term “Britpop,” and the usual musical suspects come to mind: Blur, Oasis, Suede, and…

By Yun-hua Chen. Seldom can film-viewing be such a devastating experience. Having competed in the category of main competition at the Venice…

By Yun-hua Chen. After a very personal debut Full of Missing Links (2012) about her journey back to South Korea in search…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. There’s a moment in Matt Wolf’s documentary Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project where the enormous value of the VHS…

By Elias Savada. The stars are blondly aligned: Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie, as three of the many victims of the…

By Susana Bessa. We could never say it had been the worst week of her life. Because to see it as the…

By Christopher Sharrett. I have had sympathetic interest in the work of Clint Eastwood over the years, but such interest has been…

By James Slaymaker. Jean-Luc Godard once explained that he pioneered his late-period, archival style after realizing that “in a striking manner, film…

By Rod Lott. Given how ahead of its time Fists in the Pocket is, I’m surprised Mario Bellocchio’s first feature isn’t more…

By Michael Sandlin. “Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man,” is the bit of…

By Michael Sandlin. From a strictly academic point of view, 26-year-old boy wonder documentarian Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family affecting ticks all the boxes…

By Thomas Puhr. “Who can prove the genuineness of feelings?” a scientist asks in Little Joe (2019). “Moreover, who cares?” These startling…

By Christopher Sharrett. Anyone viewing Polyester for the first time might be a little confused: hasn’t all this been done before? Satires…

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. It’s easy to see a film as a cultural object, a product, but it is much…

By Gary M. Kramer. The earnest documentary After the Murder of Albert Lima depicts the painstaking efforts of Paul Lima to get justice…

By Travis Merchant. The power of language and assimilation runs rampant throughout Synonyms (2019), Nadav Lapid’s semi-autobiographical film about an Israeli immigrant…

By Janine Gericke. “When are you having kids?” on my wedding day people half joking (but not really) asked me. Most women…

By Christopher Sharrett. It has been some time since Martin Scorsese has interested me, his achievements in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull…

A Book Review by Tony Williams. After reviewing the latest Criterion DVD release of Michael Radford’s 1984 (1984), I felt obligated to obtain a…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Born and raised in New Zealand, filmmaker Daniel Joseph Borgman has traveled from one of the most southernmost cities…

By Jeremy Carr. There are, in Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo Boshoku), many of the familiar refrains common to Yasujirô Ozu’s conspicuously singular filmmaking.…

By Tony Williams. Although envisaged before the rise of Trump and his campaign hate clarion calls of “Send her back!” etc., on…

By Brandon Konecny. Moldova is currently the least visited country in Europe, attracting fewer tourists each year than Juneau, Alaska. So when…

By Brandon Konecny. During Nikita Khrushchev’s tenure, he wanted to make Moldova an agricultural powerhouse. The “Garden of the Soviet Union,” he called…

By Elias Savada. April Wright likes to get the word out about grand things. As with Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. There’s a scene in Ant Timpson’s debut feature Come to Daddy where Elijah Wood’s character, Norval Greenwood, is being…

By James Slaymaker. It’s been less than a decade since the momentous critical and commercial success of Drive catapulted Nicolas Winding Refn…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. With its world premiere in the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery program, stalwart short film director Minos Nikolakakis…

By Tony Williams. Gwen (2019) is one of those rare surprises in contemporary film reviewing. Rather than fall into the usual mindless…

By Rod Lott. One of the first lines uttered in 1983’s The Prey is “Good chow,” a simple statement that could double…

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Joan Neuberger’s This Thing of Darkness (Cornell University Press, 2019) illustrates, perhaps more than any other cinema…

Light and Silly: Love Type D »

By Elias Savada. Love Type D is a light, silly satire that could use a little more development in its wacky plotline.…

By Elias Savada. World premiering at the DC Independent Film Festival, director-writer Kevin Tran’s feature debut brews up a disconcerting cross-sampling of…

By Thomas Gladysz. We are going to see why Rudolph Valentino got his first star billing, in a picture called Blood and…

By Elias Savada. Director Flavio Alves’s indie feature The Garden Left Behind is all about dreamers, whether they are transgender people looking…

By Christopher Sharrett. Many years ago I moved into a small house not far from the university where I took my first…

By Areum Jeong. Korean filmmaker Kim Tae-yong made his directorial debut in 1999 with Memento Mori (directed with Min Kyu-dong), the second installment of…

By Tony Williams. I previously reviewed an earlier version of this book from BearManor Media where I commented that another edition was…

By Tony Williams. The Outer Limits now has a justifiable reputation as one of the great achievements of American science fiction television.…

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Recently appearing on both Cahiers du Cinéma’s top 10 of 2010-2019 and Variety’s list of the…

By Patrick McGilligan. Five years after it was made, My Hindu Friend, directed by Hector Babenco, finally is being shown in limited…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. To say that the US premiere of cult filmmaker Richard Stanley’s much-awaited return to feature filmmaking was one of…

By Jeremy Carr. When Montu (Dwiju Bhawal), the youngest of four children in a Bengalese family, returns home after having been injured…

By Michael Sandlin. After narrowly avoiding being nicked by the UK authorities for supposed “document theft” during the filming of his Troubles…

By Ali Moosavi. Death has been a popular theme for filmmakers to explore almost ever since cinema was invented. Some of the…

By Thomas Gladysz. I rejoice in this opportunity to record something which today is all but forgotten except for those lucky enough…

By Ali Moosavi. Among the many Iranian films that I have watched this year, six have stood out for me. If we don’t…

By Kate Hearst. At the New York premiere of Desert One at the DOC/NYC film festival, Barbara Kopple recounted how the History…

By Christopher Sharrett. I have had sympathetic interest in the work of Clint Eastwood over the years, but such interest has been…

By Michael Sandlin. “Give me the child until he is seven, and I will give you the man,” is the bit of…

By Tony Williams. Leeds-born Chris Wade is one those unique talents thankfully outside the existing psychologically dysfunctional terrain of higher education. A…

By Michael Sandlin. From a strictly academic point of view, 26-year-old boy wonder documentarian Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family affecting ticks all the boxes…

By Christopher Sharrett. Anyone viewing Polyester for the first time might be a little confused: hasn’t all this been done before? Satires…

By Christopher Sharrett. It has been some time since Martin Scorsese has interested me, his achievements in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull…

By Jeremy Carr. There are, in Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo Boshoku), many of the familiar refrains common to Yasujirô Ozu’s conspicuously singular filmmaking.…

By Tony Williams. Although envisaged before the rise of Trump and his campaign hate clarion calls of “Send her back!” etc., on…

By Jeremy Carr. Over the span of five years, from 1979 to 1982, Rainer Werner Fassbinder directed three films dealing with the…

By Matthew Sorrento. Review Filmmaker David Shields found an ideal style to document the onscreen (but off the field) career of NFL…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. There’s a scene in Ant Timpson’s debut feature Come to Daddy where Elijah Wood’s character, Norval Greenwood, is being…

By Christopher Sharrett. In what follows I am conscious that Todd Phillips’ Joker is another addition by a corporation to its “DC…

A Book Review Essay by Tony Williams. As we move further into the new millennium, we appear to benefit not only from development…

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Joan Neuberger’s This Thing of Darkness (Cornell University Press, 2019) illustrates, perhaps more than any other cinema…

By Yun-hua Chen. Salvodor Simó, the layout artist for Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge (2017), The Jungle Book (2016) and Prince…

By Jake Rutkowski. There’s an old Simpsons bit that I often turn to in times of ambivalence: Homer, faced with the prospect…

By Matthew Fullerton. First Love (Hatsukoi), prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike’s sixtieth film in twenty-four years according to last count, is a…

A Book Review Essay by Tony Williams. This book is the latest production of prolific archivist Derek Sculthorpe. If not, “The Man…

“Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers” is a blog on serials by Geoffrey Mayer, the author of Encyclopedia of American Film Serials (McFarland, 2017).…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. South African filmmaker Jenna Bass has made somewhat of a splash with her third film, Flatland, as it makes…

By Yun-hua Chen. Justin Chon, the American actor of Korean descent who made his name since his role as Eric in The…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. With its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit functions as the final…

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. Although often unspoken, there is a frequently assumed “right” and “wrong” way to approach an artist’s body of work,…

Screen and Canvas – Cinemagritte: René Magritte within the Frame of Film History, Theory, and Practice by Lucy Fischer »

A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Given their ubiquity in the public consciousness (who wouldn’t recognize The Son of Man’s [1964] bowler-hatted gentleman with an apple covering his face?), it…

The Poetry and Politics of Dropping Balls: J-P Valkeapää’s Dogs Don’t Wear Pants »

By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas. In some of its most famous forays into mainstream cinema, BDSM seems to almost instantly bestow some filmmakers with the belief they have found a one-way ticket…

Mrs. Steve Austin: The Bionic Woman and The Woman’s Film »

Some Grace Notes from Tarantino: Thoughts on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood »

By Christopher Sharrett. Those who know me will be shocked to read this piece, a partial valuation of Quentin Tarantino’s last film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I have considered…

The “Russian Griffith” with Jarring Physicality – The Bolshevik Trilogy: Three Films by Vsevolod Pudovkin (Flicker Alley) »

By John Duncan Talbird. Vsevolod Pudovkin entered Moscow University to study physical chemistry at the age of seventeen. His studies were disrupted by the start of World War I where…

First Annual VIDI SPACE Film Festival (February 22, 2020, Reston, Virginia)

VIDI SPACE’s First Annual Film Festival is being
In Remembrance: Marj Dusay (1936-2020)

Actor Marj Dusay has died. Marj is one
The Best Iranian Films of the Year: A Personal Selection

By Ali Moosavi. Among the many Iranian films that
Into the…Shed

By Ali Moosavi. The box office success of films
Rise of the Tactless Manipulator: Where’s My Roy Cohn?

By Elias Savada. I wonder if lawyer jokes
Announcing the Anthem Series on Exploitation and Industry in World Cinema

Series Editors David A. Cook –
Film Scratches: Re-Drawing the Table – La Mesa (2018)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers: Hollywood (1939-1942) and Spy Smasher

“Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers”
Deadites vs. Adaptation: Media and The Evil Dead

By Valerie Guyant. The following is an excerpt from
Film Scratches: Multiple Remembrances of Things Past – Luz en la Copa (2017)

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Film Scratches: Listening to the Invisible – Notes from a Journey (2019)

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DocuChronicles: Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground

DocuChronicles is a blog dedicated to independent documentary cinema
Gentrification on Film: Capital Expansion and the Limits of Video Activism

By Anthony Killick. Our current period of urban-environmental
Film Scratches: the Beguiling Play of Illusion – Gelateria (2019)

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DocuChronicles – Elsa Flores Almaraz on Carlos Almaraz: Playing With Fire

DocuChronicles is a blog dedicated to independent documentary
Film Scratches: Symphony of Bugs – Flesh City (2019)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Sundance Film Festival – in London!

The word Sundance to cinephiles tends to be
Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers: Lone Pine and Daredevils of the West (1943)

“Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers”
Film Scratches: Broadcast from Oblivion – .TV (2017)

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Film Scratches: The Map and the Territory – Seemingly Uncorrelated Variables (2017)

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Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers: Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu and Republic’s Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)

“Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers”
Agnes Varda, 1928-2019

By Christopher Sharrett. I commented early this week
Larry Cohen, 1936-2019

By Christopher Sharrett. Death is ruthless, but it
Film Scratches: Exuberant Nihilism – Nihelious (2017)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental
Film Scratches: Suspending the Rules – Poetry of Dreams (2017)

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Film Scratches: Poetry of the Downtrodden – Short Films of Jeremy Gluck (2017)

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Film Scratches: Remixing as Distillation – Praxis Selection from Index

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Film Scratches: Meta-Fetishes – Flowers and Bottoms (2016)

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Film Scratches: A Quest on Wheels – The Oneiric Bicycle (2016)

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Film Scratches: Compelling Mystery – The Visiting Lament (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Of Masculinity, Mortgages, Moral Redemption, and MeToo: My “Practically Perfect” Thoughts on Mary Poppins Returns

By Elizabeth Toohey. Because I wasn’t planning to
Film Scratches: Words Unsaid – Carta a Boris (Letter to Boris, 2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Faking Your Childhood – A Stroll Down Sunflower Lane (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Nicolas Roeg, 1928-2018

By Dean Goldberg. On November 23th, 2018, a
Film Scratches: Self-Portrait of the Self-Portraitist – Astrid’s Self-Portrait (2015)

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Film Scratches: Conditioned Responses – Recent Short Work by Steven Lapcevic (2014-2018)

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Announcing “Daredevils of the Red Circle and Other Cliffhangers” by Geoffrey Mayer

Film International is pleased to welcome “Daredevils of
Film Scratches: Queen of the Nile Digest – Cleopatra Burst (2016)

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Film Scratches: Moving Between the Worlds – Trapped Between Frames (2014)

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Film Scratches: Seduced by Spectacle – Where the Night is Going (2015)

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Abdolreza Kahani’s Free Like Air to Be Produced in Toronto

Iranian filmmaker Abdolreza Kahani will release his latest
Tag Gallagher, in Print and Video

On the occasion of Tag Gallagher’s interview with
Film Scratches: To See is To Know – saVer (2015)

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Film Scratches: Grist for his Visual Mill – Parva Sed Apta Mihi (2012)

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Film Scratches: Looking Inward – Green Eye (2012)

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Film Scratches: A Stroll with Mickey and Marcel – Promenade Mythanalytique: Logotype, Parole & Empreinte (2017)

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Film Scratches: Following the Logic of the Eye – noCOM (2014)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Wonderland of Pain and Survival – Toogie’s Trip to Bukuokuka (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Euphoria Unmasked – Careless Camera Work on Clapham Common (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Recent Short Films by Chang Po-Yang

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
On Compiling The Encyclopedia of Racism in American Film

Editor Salvador Jiménez Murguia recently published The Encyclopedia
Film Scratches: Sleepy in Sulaymaniyah – Dream City (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Recent Short Films of Jacques Spohr

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: The Words Behind The Dance – Una Mina (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
De Palma’s Scarface at 35: a TriBeCa Panel

By Gary M. Kramer. Brian DePalma’s 1983 remake
Call for Contributions: The Mondo Film and its Legacy

Contributions are invited for a special edition
And the Animated Shorts Nominees Are…

By Elias Savada. The Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts in competition for
Film Scratches: Pulling Meaning out of the Shots – Incident Reports (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Prelude (2014)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Untangling Political Violence – Anál-isis Callejero (Street Anal-ysis, 2012)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Blowing Out the Candles – Hurricane (2017)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Suspended Ecstasies – Skin Deep (2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Songs Behind the Silence – Stille Stadt (2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Matter = Energy = Images – Shot on Blood (2010)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
For Tobe Hooper: 1943-2017

By Christopher Sharrett. Some weeks ago I wrote
DC Shorts Film Festival at 14 (September 7-17): It’s Not the Size That Counts

By Elias Savada. Another year and another annual rite
Film Scatches: A Diagram of Agony and Joy – Waiting for Sevdah (2017)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: The Unlived Lives of Parents – My Heart is an Octopus or My Father on the Shore of the Black Sea (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Call for Contributions: Artist, Transport, Travel

From Guest Editor Gary McMahon. Texts are invited
Film Scratches: Tutorials for the Apocalypse – La Fuga (2014)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Dark Comedy of Dangerous Rhetoric – Stenography (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Meditations on the Ordinary – The Short Trilogy of Peace (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Call for Submissions: The Trail of the Zodiac Killer – Essays on Popular Culture (Edited Collection)

This past spring marked the tenth anniversary of
Film Scratches: Conjuring with Cameras – Savage Witches (2012)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Canaries in the Mine – Focus (2014)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Meditations on the Vine – Domain and Range (2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Recombinant Modification of Sci Fi – Going Somewhere (2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental
Film Scratches: New York Subways as Therapy – Participate in My Relaxed State (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: A Network of Networks – Memento Mori (2012)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Pregnant Poetry – The River (2016)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
A Brief Review of Alien: Covenant

By Vanessa Crispin. Since the release of Alien:
REEL EAST FILM FESTIVAL 2017 Full Schedule Announced: Saturday, June 17

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Please Contact reeleastfilm@gmail.com for
International Films abound at the 27th Annual Washington Jewish Film Festival

By Elias Savada. Twenty-seven years on, the Washington
A look back at the Alien franchise, and why fans have reason to be cautiously optimistic about Alien: Covenant

By Vanessa Crispin. A milestone for many and
Destination Unknown (Tay Garnett, 1932) at the Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is screening the
Film Scratches: The Underside of Desire – For Your Pleasure (2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Monuments to Guilt – Schuld Sind Alle (2014)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Synergy of the Eye and Ear – The Visual Music Films of Jing Wang and Harvey Goldman (2013-2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Esther C.M. Yau and Tony Williams on Hong Kong Neo-Noir

With a goal to look “closely into the
Editorial isssue 77-78: The Lives and Deaths of the Yuppie on the American Screen

By Daniel Lindvall. The essays in this issue
Film Scratches: History Seen Backwards – The Rubric Timestamped (2014)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Receiving a Face – Scrapbook (2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Protecting the Commons in 2017

Responding to Hate, Disenfranchisement, and the Loss of
Film Scratches: Navigating the System – The Ensemble of Rules (2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Camera + Hormones = Snooping: Stop (2014)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
2017 D.C. Independent Film Festival

By Elias Savada. In the shadow of glee
Film Scratches: Public Stories, Private Memories – Tip of My Tongue (2017)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Channeling Visions Through Machinery – Robot Pavlov Sputnik (2014)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Film Scratches: Never-ending Metamorphosis – A Cherenkov Radiation Jewelry Box Meltdown (2015)

Film Scratches focuses on the world of experimental and
Writing Our Future: The Inauguration, Alternate Inauguration Ball, and Protests

January 19th to the 21st will bring Trump’s

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