The Double Deuce is the meanest, loudest, and rowdiest bar south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and Dalton (Patrick Swayze) has been hired to clean it up. He might not look like much, but the Ph.D.-educated bouncer proves he’s more than capable, busting the heads of troublemakers and turning the roadhouse into a jumping hot-spot. But… Read more »
Nicole Kidman slumbers next to a symbol of her husband’s infidelity in Eyes Wide Shut Chris Forrester discusses Stanley Kubrick’s final film and how its yuletide setting deepens its interrogations of sexuality, masculinity, and marriage. Of all the great cinephile debates (what is and isn’t a masterpiece, who are the great filmmakers, which Godfather movie… Read more »
Poster for The Holy Mountain (1973) Recalling his first experience with Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain, Jesse Pasternack explains why he recommends going into a film blind. One of my favorite moviegoing experiences at the IU Cinema was a midnight showing of The Holy Mountain (1973). I saw my friend and fellow blogger Aja Essex there,… Read more »
Still from The Two Towers Noni Ford reveals why the second film in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy is the precious her favorite of the series, thanks in large part to the spectacular Battle of Helm’s Deep. I don’t have any memory of actually seeing any of The Lord of the Rings in… Read more »
The killer strikes in Black Christmas (Clark, 1974) Chris Forrester argues for the importance of Black Christmas to the slasher genre. In the annals of horror history lurk a great many unsung classics, films beloved by cinephiles and/or horror fanatics but for a slew of reasons — often relating to their content and the genre’s… Read more »
Still from *Corpus Callosum What is structural film? Alex Brannan explains the term and its place in the experimental film genre. A wave of films deemed “structural” emerged in the North American avant-garde during the 1960s. This was a brand of minimalist and highly formalist cinema. P. Adams Sitney, who coined the term “structural” to… Read more »