Happy birthday, Luis Buñuel! Here are some quotes from the superb filmmaker. “God and Country are an unbeatable team; they…
“Sometimes life has more imagination than we do.”
Happy birthday, François Truffaut! Here are some quotes from Truffaut and stills from his films: “Three films a day, three…
“Making a movie is like casting a spell.”
Happy birthday, Kenneth Anger! Here are some stills from Anger’s extraordinary films:
“I’m hanging on to life for dear life.”
Happy birthday, Derek Jarman! Here are some quotes from the brilliant filmmaker: “But the wind does not stop for my…
On First Reformed
ON FIRST REFORMED (Spoilers) The form perfectly matches the content. And so, with First Reformed, Paul Schrader has done it, just…
The Completed Eyes Wide Shut?
When Stanley Kubrick died on March 7, 1999, there was still a little over four months until Eyes Wide Shut’s…
From Madeleine E.
[INT. Scottie’s Bedroom (NIGHT)] … There is no dead matter. Lifelessness is only a disguise behind which hide unknown forms…
Outside the Tradition
“Nothing in your education or experience can have prepared you for this film: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain.” Presumably, nearly…
His Light Materials: Puig, Film, and “Gruesome Tangos”
I hope some of you are reading and digging Manuel Puig’s Betrayed by Rita Hayworth. In my first post, I…
What Is Experimental Art?
One typically hears unusual art called three different things, often interchangeably: Innovative Avant-Garde Experimental But what do these three words…