By: Mimi Lipson

When trash meets art.

By: Peggy Nelson

He insisted that he was a poet, no matter what the medium.

By: Tor Aarestad

German history, anti-norm­ativity, and structur­alism.

By: Franklin Bruno

Andre Bazin wrote “he directs facts” — but did he?

By: Mimi Lipson

High Corman: pell-mell, hep, bizarrely hybridized.

By: Brian Berger

“All Lean’s movies are Life Epics, about individuals… and their dawning conscience.”

By: Jason Grote

A brutality so extreme as to border on black comedy.

By: David Smay

Beauty — rapturous sexy sexy, glorious abandon at war with ethics.

By: Franklin Bruno

He preferred thieves and roués to bosses, bureaucrats, and burghers.

By: David Smay

Beneath the flash and fun, a slick of moral quandaries.

By: Tom Nealon

DAVID CRONENBERG (born 1943) has been lauded for his blurring of boundaries between technology and the individual, but this praise has consistently missed the point, for his films have singularly denied the existence of any […]

By: Matthew De Abaitua

Few cultural scraps are as redolent of lo-fi VHS genre pleasures than a movie trailer with JOHN CARPENTER’s (born 1948) name above the title and his own analog synth score. Carpenter’s breakthrough was Dark Star […]

By: David Smay

The 1960s was a terrible decade for film and television comedy, but it did produce a stellar class of comedians working the beatnik demimonde: Mort Sahl, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Joan Rivers, George Carlin, Bill […]

By: Greg Rowland

Ironists don’t understand Wood.

By: Mimi Lipson

Filmmaker PRESTON STURGES (1898-1959) made a joyful mockery of the Hays Code with his improbably wholesome card sharks, unwed mothers, imposters and flimflammers, his ballot box stuffers, shoplifters, party girls and bigamists. “I can’t keep […]