formerly Mad Cornish Projectionist.
Though the fifties are best remembered as an art-house golden age in Italian cinema, even then the work of Federico Fellini and Vittorio De Sica coexisted with peplum, a genre of popular, cheaply made sword-and-sandal movies. Bava inaugurated the Italian … Continued
More than the films of any other genre, horror movies are the phenotypes of cultural anxiety—often, you can read the turbulence right on the skin, like hives. In Japan, a nation always rich with wild expressions of social stress, this … Continued
“Today a technological storm is raging, the result of which will be the ultimate democratization of the cinema.” So reads one of the many pronouncements of Dogme 95’s opening salvo—a manifesto that the movement’s cofounder, Lars von Trier, distributed on … Continued
From colonial America to the recent war in Iraq, Army stories have captured movie audiences for nearly a century; influencing pop culture since cinema’s early days. Source: https://www.army.mil/article/283855/the_army_at_250_five_of_the_most_realistic_army_films_in_cinema_history
Steven Meiner introduced a resolution last week describing the Oscar-winning documentary as antisemitic, but he withdrew it during Wednesday’s regular commission meeting after five of the six city commissioners said they opposed the proposal. Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/miami-beach-mayor-no-longer-end-no-other-land-theater-lease-1236168147/
The Oscar winner says there are “so few spaces that you can go now, where you are private” in the era of phones and social media. Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cate-blanchett-awards-shows-shouldnt-be-televised-anymore-1236168677/