In 1998, Stanley Kubrick accepted the D.W. Griffith Award from the Director’s Guild of America. In his acceptance speech, he compared […]
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Proto-indie filmmaker Roger Corman once said, “Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons […]
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“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how […]
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“A lightweight story.” That was what Hitchcock called his 1955 romantic thriller: “It wasn’t meant to be taken seriously.” In his […]
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In his biblical tome Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents, author Stephen Thrower likens exploitation films to “the […]
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“So open up the window and let me breathe.I said open up the window, shh-shh-shh-shh-shh, and let me breathe.I’m looking down […]
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Midsommar. The Invisible Man. Hereditary. It’s a common staple of horror, but lately lots of genre films have featured (white) women […]
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“Before, I was alone. Now I’m not.” – Honeymoon In The Tenant (1976), Roman Polanski’s drunk Trelkovsky asks when, after cutting […]
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