Each of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
Each of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
Without Peeping Tom and Psycho, where would we be today? With two great works of art—one, a notorious commercial failure that all but ended the career of its director, the other, a paradigm-changing
Each of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
Each of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
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The final in a four part series of articles on director Nagisa Oshima.
ABSENTIAS "Switch your gorgeous minds to overdrive: this is really quite important." Some filmmakers, alas, are forgotten when they die, but some are forgotten even before. Michael Powell spent most
Theater of the Revolution again. Oshima’s Shiro of Amakusa takes up the perspective of a blank stare—mostly minute-long takes, from positions fixed as corpses, only for a quickly forgotten camera to reassert
Long before the term "guerilla filmmaking" entered the lexicon, writer/director Samuel Fuller was a chief proponent of cinema by any means necessary. From the valley of the B-pictures that the late
Restart. Capitalism, hard-wired for subjugations, turns relationships into staged exchanges. Everyone is under some sort of control and wants some more. Rebellion is transgression is sexual. Oshima rebels
In honor of Oshima’s passing, we’re highlighting a four part series of articles on the director by David Phelps.