Buckaroo Banzai
For one moment, it seemed as though the Eighties might turn out OK.
Shocking Blocking
Field notes on the movement and positioning of actors in movies.
Barbarella
In its silly way, this is a movie about female sexual power.
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
A non-compact topological group of bare-breasted women in G-strings.
The African Queen
How to survive not war, but peace, with one’s humanity intact?
The Diary of a Chambermaid
Comical yet not funny, equal-opportunity in its portrayal of human folly, artificial in the extreme.
Dazed and Confused
Single-night movies aren’t snapshots, they’re moonlit summoning rituals.
A Bucket of Blood
Beatnik gives us anti-highbrow Beat-ness without the exaltation.
Robocop
How best to convey the pathos and tragedy of the Ex-Ex-Human Condition?
Candyman
The unmentionable boogeyman is hermeneutic vertigo.
Escape from Alcatraz
For captive and captor alike, there is no escape.
Pulp Fiction
Cinema irrupts into the TV space.
His Girl Friday
Propaganda of the most dramatic and welcome kind.
The Long Goodbye
Marlowe wanders the aisles of a supermarket at night.
Bonnie and Clyde
Down in front!