Category Archives: film

Animated GIF Workshop for Chinese Cinema

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Reverend

Andy Rush and I did an animated GIF workshop for professor Sue Fernsebner‘s Chinese History through Film course last Wednesday, and I think we both agreed walking out of the session that it might have been the most fun we’ve … Continue reading →

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Le Trou: the Labor of Cinematic Love

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Reverend

When I was in graduate school I took a course about labor and cinema that had a wide range of post-war films coupled with readings from critical film studies, post-structuralist Marxism, etc. —you get the general late 1990s grad school … Continue reading →

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Tree of Life

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Reverend

Antonella and I watched Terence Malik’s The Tree of Life (2011) a month or so ago, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head since. Whatever you make of the craziness of the creation of the … Continue reading →

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200 Documentaries You Must See Before You Die

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Reverend

Meeting and hanging out with Keene Haywood was one of the highlights of my time in Austin this past week, and what’s more it even paid film dividends. Keene turned me onto Kevin Kelley’s True Films 3.0 or, 200 documentaries … Continue reading →

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“Listen Terencino” —Fellini as Maniac

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Reverend

Anto watched a documentary on RAI recently titled Fellini: I’m a Big Liar, which has a series of interviews of people sharing tales about the great Federico Fellini, and what a maniac he was. And no story captures this better … Continue reading →

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Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle”

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Reverend

Ubuweb has been on a serious tear recently, and I love their twitter feed cause I get to see those gems as they roll out. Is there any better resources on the web for 20th century avant-garde art than ubuweb? … Continue reading →

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The Dead Zone: “Pretty good, huh?”

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Reverend

I could watch this opening scene from The Dead Zone (1983) again and again, a picture of a teacher reading to his students the best of Poe, and then punctuating it with a “pretty good, huh?” as well as a … Continue reading →

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Snuff

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Reverend

I just found this awesome post on the Temple of Schlock blog featuring a series of reviews about the 1976 splatter film Snuff, that was marketed as if it was an actual snuff film. I’ve never seen it, but after … Continue reading →

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Child Bride (1938)

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Reverend

So, I recently got the latest issue of Filmfax (my favorite magazine in the world) and it was a good one. As soon as a I got it I was heading directly for the article on Peter Hyams’s NASA conspiracy … Continue reading →

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Rosemary’s Baby: A Retrospective

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Reverend

This is a quick and fascinating retrospective on one of the great horror films of the late twentieth-century: Rosemary’s Baby (1967). It’s interesting to hear what Polanski thought of as the best scenes and shots, and even wilder to realize … Continue reading →

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