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Downtown Cool, Electroclash, Fashion, Sex, Heroin and UFO’s or Liquid Sky
Every once in a while a movie comes along that captures a cultural moment. And, sometimes, that same movie can also offer insights into subcultures long forgotten. And, with a backward glance, the...
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Notorious! Scandalous! Wild! or Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion and Salome’s...
Uh, oh…Crimes of PassionKen Russell, 1984Cinematography | Dick Bush I have always hated being told what to do. I prefer to be the boss. My blog is my own as and so are the opinions expressed within it....
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The Meta-Film Eats Itself or Thoughts On Joe Swanberg’s Full Moon Trilogy
I really do not care for the term “Mumblecore.” This term feels like an insult to the films and artists who have emerged within this assigned “genre.” Labels are always problematic. But we humans love...
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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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Never Mix Never Worry or The Brilliance of Sandy Dennis
There will ever only be one Sandy Dennis. When Broadway still mattered. Sandy Dennis, the star in the $7 dress.TIME Magazine, 1967Illustration | Boris Chaliapin A truly unique visionary of an actor...
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Male Cinematic Perspective of Female Psychology or What It Feels Like For A Girl
There was once a time when Madonna presented ideas far deeper than that of “Pop Star.” While those days seem to have past, many of the ideas she presented and asserted remain. Lucky for us a female...
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Yes, but is it “Art?” or Cult Films
Definitions, categorizations and comparisons fill the world of art theory. When it comes to Film Art there seems to be an almost endless stream of terms. Defining “cinema” and determining what films...
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How Can I Just Pick 10? or My Favorite Movies Released in 2015
One of the best films to screen in 2015 will not be released to cinemas until next year. The Witch Robert Eggers, 2015 Yes, I know there are more than a couple of movies coming out before the...
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Fire Walk With Me or Like A Turkey In The Corn: Lynchian Cinema Unbridled
When David Lynch and Mark Frost initially pitched the concept that would become the TV series, Twin Peaks, the idea was really about creating a satire on American small town culture. The show’s mystery...
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Subvert Normality or Exploring Dark Corners of the Human Psyche
As Dennis Hopper’s gritty and nihilistic film, Out of the Blue, we see and hear two things: Out of the BlueDennis Hopper, 1980 the first is an 18-wheeler speeding along a stretch of road. In it sit a...
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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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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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Never Mix Never Worry or The Brilliance of Sandy Dennis
There will ever only be one Sandy Dennis. When Broadway still mattered. Sandy Dennis, the star in the $7 dress.TIME Magazine, 1967Illustration | Boris Chaliapin A truly unique visionary of an actor...
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Drunken Beauty in a Drained Swimming Pool or Edie Sedgwick in Ciao! Manhattan
“Speed. Madness. Flying Saucers.CIAO! MANHATTANEdie Sedgwick as “Susan Superstar”John Palmer & David Weisman, 1972 Well it finally happened. My Ciao! Manhattan PlexiFilm DVD died. To be fair, that...
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My Favorite Films of 2015 Thus Far
As there are less than three months of the year left, I find myself thinking of the films that had the biggest impact on me. In other words, my favorite films of the year. My list is not finalized and...
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Cinematic Magic: Queen of Earth
Queen of EarthElisabeth Moss / Katherine WaterstonAlex Ross Perry | 2015 Alex Ross Perry’s film is clearly inspired by several key films of Robert Altman, Roman Polanski and even Rainer Werner...
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Goons With Fruit! or The Cher Factor or Disco Roll-A-Rama or Roller Boogie:...
As the bass, drums and orchestra kick in and we can hear Cher start to sing: “Well I’m hell on wheels, I’m a roller mama. I can slide down places that you never knew. Try me on for size at the...
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Why? Why? Why?!?! or Where Is This Leading To? or The Films of Rick Alverson
In a Q&A held in 2011 at SXSW, Rick Alverson speaks to the inspirations that led him to become a filmmaker, he recalls his childhood interest in Steven Spielberg’s films. He finds his then...
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Philosophical Provocation or Vampire Blood-Lust: Able Ferrara’s The Addiction
“Adversity’s sweet milk: philosophy.” “You want me to take you someplace dark?”AddictionAbel Ferrara, 1995Cinematography | Ken Kelsch Abel Ferrara’s attempt at the vampire genre is blended with a...
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Owning Your Identity or An Unmarried Woman Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Over the past two days I’ve had to “re-vist” two films from my childhood. In addition, I’m also in the process of working through the challenges of PTSD. Up until 2008, I was a highly-functioning and...
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