by Luise Mörke “I could introduce you to people… interesting people,” Ed Hood’s character in My Hustler (1965) promises the object of his desire (Paul America) in exchange […]
‘Vinyl’
by Will Sloan It’s cliché to observe that Andy Warhol’s filmography resembles the evolution of cinema itself. Warhol begins, as did Edison and Lumière, with silent films that […]
Riding Lonesome – ‘Lonesome Cowboys’
by Caden Mark Gardner Lonesome Cowboys was shot in the Arizona winter of 1968, a year before Easy Rider became the counterculture crossover hit to polarize America, months […]
Warhol and Morrissey’s Horror Double Feature – ‘Flesh for Frankenstein’ and ‘Blood for Dracula’
by Nel Dahl Low-budget horror cinema’s potential to unexpectedly reverse its initially mixed reception is epitomized by the strange afterlife of Paul Morrissey’s Andy Warhol-produced double feature, Flesh […]
Blu Review: ‘The Shakedown’ (Early Universal Vol. 1, Eureka)
by Ruairí McCann The Shakedown (1929) has just found its way to a Blu-ray release, via Eureka’s Masters of Cinema line and the boxset Early Universal Vol.1, where […]
Rice Krispies for a Revolution – Blu Review: ‘The Edge/Ice’ by Robert Kramer (Re:Voir Video)
by Jack Seibert How many French critics does it take to release an American movie? Somewhere in the dozens, if the movie is Robert Kramer’s The Edge. Cahiers […]
Communing in a Corporatized University: ‘Manifesto’ (2020) by Ane Hjort Guttu
by Tomáš Hudák In her latest short film Manifesto, awarded the Dutch critics’ KNF Award at IFF Rotterdam, artist and filmmaker Ane Hjort Guttu examines the institution of […]
Book Review: ‘Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville’ by Andrew Dickos
Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville is a well-researched and written primer for one of French cinema’s greatest mad mercenaries and lionhearts.
Cannes 39/90/? — An Interview with Étienne Gaudillère
by Yoana Pavlova If the invention of cinema towards the end of the XIX century is the crowning achievement of man’s attempts to master reality, the XX century […]
Two Short Films by Atoosa Pour Hosseini, A Report from LUMINOUS VOID: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society at the Project Arts Centre
Atoosa Pour Hosseini is intent on depicting and blurring notions of performed art and documentary footage with mythic and deconstructed imagery, and the Holocene mingled with the Anthropocene.