Guillermo Del Toro made Pan’s Labyrinth in 2006. It was a thickly layered film with several themes running through it simultaneously, each enriching the other. There is […]
We The Animals has no literal narrator. There is no disembodied voice leading the audience through the film, but there is a palpable sense of narration. […]
Beginning a film with the funeral of the main character has been done before but in Repentance the morning after the funeral the deceased is found propped […]
In 1973, Shunya Itō released Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable, his third installment in the Scorpion series. The opening of this movie is the most badass […]
When a film depicts actors playing the role of actors it inherently becomes existential. Peeking behind the curtain calls everything into question. Shakespeare makes many […]
David Lynch made Mulholland Drive in 2001. It was the middle film in a Los Angeles trilogy that also included Lost Highway and Inland Empire. The espresso scene […]
When Sebastian Schipper chose to make the film Victoria in 2015 it was either going to be a recipe for a brilliant triumph or complete disaster. The […]
La Cienaga is a beautifully, and meticulously constructed film. Each facet, each scene reflects the entirety of the film. It begins as the sound of crickets fades […]
This article contains spoilers. Tomcat centers around one sharp moment of horror. A single lightning bolt out of nowhere that leaves you breathless. Tomcat is […]
The movie, Bone was released in 1972 and everything about it reflects that time frame. In 1972 Richard Nixon was president, Gloria Steinem’s published the first issue […]
I’ve never seen a film as jam packed with cinematic acrobatics as Let The Corpses Tan. Its a hyper-stylized, over the top, morass of filmmaking. Its […]
Hitchcock often made realism and plausibility a priority in his films. Movies like Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho were meant to be seen as events that could […]
“I can’t believe you committed suicide, I can not believe you committed suicide. How could you have done this? How could you have committed suicide?” […]
The most salient feature of Lucrecia Martel’s 2004 film, The Headless Woman, is the insightful and meticulous observations she finds in mundane moments. The way droplets of […]
John Hughes may have his limitations as a filmmaker but in his 1985 comedy The Breakfast Club, he finds an ingenious expositional device that he uses […]
It could not have been easy to make a two hour, narrative film that is completely unintelligible. You’d think they might stumble across some continuity […]
What an odd movie Wonderwall is. It was made in 1968 by Joe Massot, who would later co-direct The Song Remains The Same. Wonderwall could have been a […]
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) Jens Lien’s 2006 film The […]
The first two-thirds of Dariush Mehrjui’s film Gaav (The Cow) feel’s like a biblical parable. It is not predictable, but it feels like it’s going to be. […]
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