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Articles 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
…a younger and rebellious Russell Crowe, Newton seems to be in complete control of his medium as he cleverly intertwines the three different stories of his characters. Sam and Emma’s chemistry and dialogue is reminiscent of Delpy and Hawke’s endless conversation in Before Sunrise and is so captivating I couldn’t…
March 31st, 2009
Articles The Cosmopolitan Perspective, the Rebellious Impulse: The Activist, Belle, Dear White People, Omar, Selma and Proposals for the Future (Part 2)
…Delany, Glenn Ligon, Randall Kenan, John Keene, and Kehinde Wiley. Lionel may—Lionel is something of a geek: someone obsessed with imagination and technology, with forms of knowledge, but socially awkward, an awkwardness sometimes traversed or transcended with humor and devotion to popular culture or significant art: “The black geek does…
January 31st, 2016
Articles Like a Charm
…Thompson as Beatrice and Kenneth Branagh, who also directed the film, as Benedick. Not all charming movies need be romantic comedies. It’s hard to conceive of a more delightful movie than Local Hero (Bill Forsyth, 1983), the tale of an American oil executive sent to Scotland to purchase a town,…
November 30th, 2015
Articles Frank Sinatra: Jazz Actor
…Garfunkel, Cher, Will Smith, Russell Crowe, Diana Ross, Kris Kristofferson, Courtney Love, and Bing Crosby. "Playing against type" can be difficult, because it involves retooling both one’s “instrument” and the Hollywood publicity machinery. As an example of an artist who overcame the barriers between cinematic genres, I’ll focus here on…
December 31st, 2024
Articles Programming Cult: Fantasia Film Festival and Programming Oppositional Taste
…Rollin, Jose Mojica Marins, Ken Russell and Tobe Hooper giving these under appreciated horror auteurs lifetime achievement awards and crystalizing their place in cult cannon. Davis states that he cherishes, “the ability to take filmmakers that felt like they have always been neglected and to… help validate them. You know…
June 30th, 2016
Articles Liberations of Mind, Spirit, and Vision: The Fall by Tarsem Singh
…to visionaries Tarkovsky, Fellini, Ken Russell, Derek Jarman, Paradjanov. It’s meant to crown what should rightly be called the post–music video era (vets like Jonze, Marcos Siega, Michel Gondry having gone on to make some of the most distinctive movies of the past decade). But given his catalog of styles,…
September 30th, 2008
Articles The Trouble With Harry: The Third Man (1949), Part 2
…state-sponsored media bodies. [[See Ken Dancyger’s Global Scriptwriting for an account of the influence Hollywood’s screenwriting pedagogues are having on the commercial potential of international filmmaking in the English-speaking world and beyond. Boston, Mass: Focal Press, 2001. This is also covered in Horton, 2004.]] This structure easily tells us Holly’s…
December 21st, 2016
Articles Sex and Violence: Journey into Extreme Cinema
…added on Greek cinema, Brazilian sexploitation (the pornochanchadas), and Ken Russell. An indispensable book has become even more so.
November 30th, 2003
Articles Adam Nayman on Ben Wheatley
…number of other [directors]… Ken Russell, [Nicolas] Roeg. In Free Fire, I just find that those connections, that continuity, that influence is maybe a little more disconnected and detached than in his British films. But Ben has also said a zillion times that he doesn’t work that way, or that…
July 31st, 2020
Articles 10th Anniversary Survey Responses
…up. The premiere of Ken Jacobs’ Star Spangled to Death, an astonishing, intemperate condemnation of postwar American society (a film five decades in the making), at the New York Film Festival’s Views from the Avant-Garde. Combining vintage blocks of found ethnographic film, racist cartoons, chilling presidential addresses and political campaigning…
July 31st, 2007
Articles The Girl Who Knew Too Much: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Part Two, Gone Girl
…Andy Hardy. Biographer John Russell Taylor reports that composer Dimitri Tiomkin was disturbed following a preview of the film “because the audience giggled in one or two unexpected places. Not Hitch: he was delighted because it showed they were really tense and uncomfortable” (Taylor: 320). As he told Truffaut, “the…
February 28th, 2023
Articles On Virtue, Friendship, and Political Participation in the film The Long Walk Home and in the book Contemporary Black American Cinema
…Cork Art Director Blake Russell, Cinematographer Roger Deakins, Editor Bill Yahraus Producer Howard W. Koch Jr. New Visions/Miramax, 1990 Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies Edited by Mia Mask Routledge, 2012 Courage, compassion, confidence, dignity, diligence, discipline, fairness, fellowship, generosity, gentleness, harmony, intelligence, knowledge, sensitivity,…
July 31st, 2013
Articles Nothing Is Wrong: Notes on Costume in Klute (1971)
…the film The Boyfriend (Russell,1971) with its clear references to Weimar Berlin and of course Cabaret (Fosse, 1972).) One girl is rejected for being too pretty; Bree’s hands are dismissed as ‘funny.’ The world of superficiality is rife with put-downs. She immediately leaves and goes to a phone booth, dials…
July 31st, 2020
Articles The ‘Cult ’ of Kubrick
…and horror-based imagery of Ken Russell’s 1986 Gothic). The Shining (1980) was Kubrick’s only real foray into the horror film, but it remains a rather notable and well-known release within that genre. Jack Nicholson delivers one of his most campily excessive performances as a struggling writer who moves his family…
May 31st, 2006
Articles In Dreams and Realities Begin Conflicts and Resolutions: Poitier Revisited and Contemporary Black American Cinema
…Jafa, Pauline Kael, Lisa Kennedy, Phyllis Rauch Klotman, Felicia R. Lee, Wesley Morris, David Nicholson, Mark Reid, Valerie Smith, James Snead, Clyde Taylor, Michele Wallace, Armond White, and Gladstone Yearwood. I still recall descriptions by Pauline Kael, Vincent Canby, Richard Dyer, Jane Gaines, and Donald Bogle of Diana Ross as…
June 30th, 2017
Articles Subconscious Cruelty: The Interview
…gialli, the films of Ken Russell, Dusan Makavejev. My inspirations and influences are a real mix, but it all comes together as an odd cinematic smorgasbord. Mitch: One of the things we did, on one of the first short cast meetings in January, is we showed a whole group of…
July 11th, 2001
Articles In Search of Home: Cultural Traditions and Richard Deming’s book The Art of the Ordinary: The Everyday Domain of Art, Film, Philosophy, and Poetry
…Buffalohead (University Press of Kentucky, 2013 hc / 2018 pbk). The anthology offers a multi-page filmography, including Images of Indians (1979) by Phil Lucas and Robert Hagopian and In the Heart of Big Mountain (1988) by Sandy Osawa and The Business of Fancydancing (2002) by Sherman Alexie and A Thousand…
October 18th, 2020
Articles The Girl Who Knew Too Much: Shadow of a Doubt (1943) Part One, The Gothic Girls of Hollywood
…269). As biographer John Russell Taylor states, by 1938 Hitchcock had gone as far as was possible in the limitations of the English film industry and from both a stylistic and technical point of view he welcomed the opportunity to work in Hollywood (Taylor, 1978: 137-146). In an interview that…
February 28th, 2023