Year of the Month: FANNY AND ALEXANDER
Christmastime is here! Christmastime is here! Soon it will be Easter! That’s not true, of…
Glory of the 80s: THE LOVELESS (1981)
—Hey, this isn’t faux-dive. This is a dive. —Yer a long way from home, yuppie-boy.…
In Memoriam: Harry Dean Stanton
I never thought I would be writing this about Harry Dean Stanton. He has passed…
Film on the Disc: BLUE COLLAR
Paul Schrader said in an interview with The Guardian, “It doesn’t really matter what I…
Scenic Route: MIRACLE MILE (1989)
A scene or sequence of which I never tire could be called the Expanding Chaos…
New Modes for Old Truths: Unforgiven: the Music of Diamanda Galás and Galina Ustvolskaya
Have you not taken encouragement to sin against God, on that very presumption, that God…
Aspiring to the Condition of Music: on Stan Brakhage
“Remember, God didn’t say ‘I’m gonna make light now,’ He said ‘Let there be light.’…
New Modes for Old Truths: James Ellroy’s America
Mr. Campbell, who cares? Even if this were true, who cares? This country was built…
Celebrating the Living: Harvey Keitel
“My characters aren’t nasty; they’re troubled.” Harvey Keitel is not wrong. Or anyway, not entirely…
Joaquin Phoenix may play the grooviest dude of them all, Jesus
In the course of his three-decade-spanning career, Joaquin Phoenix, AKA Leaf Phoenix, AKA the Joaq…