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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger or Not
When I hear or read “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!” I want to curl myself into a cataclysmic ball of rage and explode. No. The horrors and challenges in life that do not kill you do not...
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Medium Is The Message or Long Live The New Flesh
VideodromeDavid Cronenberg, 1983 Marshall McLuhan was a fascinating intellectual. He was also a scholar and philosopher who focused nearly all of his attention to the ways in which media does a great...
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All Of Them Witches: Horror Reality Confirmed or Perceived?
Like being strapped into an amusement park ride, sitting in the darkness as a horror movie begins there is a mixture of giddy fun and an often embarrassing dread of what we are submitting ourselves to...
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The Cracks That Can’t Be Mended or Polanski’s Repulsion
“I was wondering if you could do me a favor and write a think piece on Polanski’s Repulsion? Perhaps you could post it on your blog. I’d really appreciate it.” “The nightmare world of a virgin’s dreams...
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Seriously Twisted or The Warped Ones and Thirst for Love
The Warped OnesKoreyoshi Kurahara, 1960Poster Designer Unknown to me. Koreyoshi Kurahara established himself as an essential filmmaker from the end of the 1950’s to his final film, 1995’s Hiroshima....
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Where Stars Make Dreams And Dreams Make Stars or David Lynch’s Inland Empire
Laura Dern as a woman in deep trouble…INLAND EMPIREDavid Lynch, 2006 There is an early key scene in David Lynch’s Inland Empire. It is between one of several characters played by Laura Dern and another...
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Is That London Burning? Or Exploring The British New Wave from The Other Side...
Uh, oh. Trouble is coming from all sides as Ken Russell takes British Film into the 1970’s. Despite on-going demand, Time Warner still refuses to allow us to take a full-on second look back. Britain’s...
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The Dot As Identity or The Films of Jane Arden and Jack Bond
Watching, thinking and studying from all perspectives.SeparationJane ArdenJack Bond, 1968Cinematography| Aubrey Dewar & David Muir The collaborative work between artists and lovers, Jack Bond and...
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The Last Tango in Warsaw or The Dark Side of God
By 1995 Communist Poland was long gone. The state no longer restricted the artist or oppressed it’s people. Capitalism was to be embraced. Along with this sudden shift in economy and freedom came many...
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Absurdity, Love and The Void or Zulawski’s Final Film
“I shall tell of another adventure that is all the more strange...” — Witold Gombrowicz, 1965 A film by Andrzej ZulawskiVictoria GuerraCosmosAndrzej Zulawski, 2015Cinematography | Andre Szankowski This...
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