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Craig J. Clark

Craig J. Clark watches a lot of movies. He started watching them in New Jersey, where he was born and raised, and has continued to watch them in Bloomington, Indiana, where he moved in 2007. In addition to his writing for Crooked Marquee, Craig also contributes the monthly Full Moon Features column to Werewolf News. He is not a werewolf himself (or so he says).

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Classic Corner: <i>Massacre at Central High</i>

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Classic Corner: Massacre at Central High

Sep 22nd, 2023 Craig J. Clark

The first film in the Criterion Channel’s “High School Horror” collection proves ordinary people make the scariest monsters.

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Classic Corner: Don't Look Now

Sep 15th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

The city of Venice has been the setting for many macabre tales. With "Don’t Look Now," director Nicolas Roeg told one of its most chilling.

The Last Voyage of the <i>Churchill</i>: Tobe Hooper’s Loopy <i>Lifeforce</i>

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The Last Voyage of the Churchill: Tobe Hooper’s Loopy Lifeforce

Aug 7th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

In anticipation of "The Last Voyage of the Demeter," we look at another film where a vampire books passage, this time through space (and in the buff).

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The Unstreamable Verhoeven

Jul 18th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

Paul Verhoeven’s early Dutch films laid the groundwork for his Hollywood career, but good luck finding one to watch on his 85th birthday.

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Pasolini Begins

Jun 26th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

From the start of his directing career, Pier Paolo Pasolini paid close attention to the plight of those on the bottom rungs of society.

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Looking Back in Kenneth Anger

Jun 5th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

Before he left this plane of existence last month at age 96, Kenneth Anger laid his personal obsessions bare in a collection of experimental films that still captivate viewers today.

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Seijun Suzuki Against the Machine

May 17th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

To mark the 100th anniversary of director Seijun Suzuki’s birth, the Criterion Channel has programmed a 14-film series spanning the breadth of his dynamic career.

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Screening Sakamoto: Ryuichi Sakamoto in Two Acts

May 3rd, 2023 Craig J. Clark

Pop star-turned-film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto never caught the acting bug, but he made an impression in the two films he did star in.

Movies

A Requiem for TCM Underground

Apr 7th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

The cancellation of Turner Classic Movies’ cult movie mainstay TCM Underground leaves a void that will be difficult, but not impossible, to fill.

“Enough for What Purpose?” Monty Python Explains <i>The Meaning of Life</i>

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“Enough for What Purpose?” Monty Python Explains The Meaning of Life

Mar 15th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

It’s been four decades since Monty Python’s last hurrah, which found them in a philosophical frame of mind.

<i>High and Low</i>: Kurosawa Looks at Crime from the Ground Up

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High and Low: Kurosawa Looks at Crime from the Ground Up

Mar 1st, 2023 Craig J. Clark

The 60-year-old “High and Low” proves Akira Kurosawa was just as adept at crafting contemporary stories as he was samurai epics.

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The Last of Jarman

Feb 13th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

One of queer cinema’s most outspoken voices, Derek Jarman has a career-spanning retrospective this month on The Criterion Channel.

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The Journeys of John Boorman

Jan 18th, 2023 Craig J. Clark

To celebrate the visionary director’s 90th birthday, we examine a key theme running through many of his films, starting with his first.

Movies

ICYMI 2022: Strawberry Mansion

Dec 19th, 2022 Craig J. Clark

One of the best independent films of 2022 was Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s paean to the power of dreams.

Crooked Marquee's New Christmas Canon: <i>Batman Returns</i>

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Crooked Marquee's New Christmas Canon: Batman Returns

Dec 12th, 2022 Craig J. Clark

Wintry dreams of rubber-suited heroes and kinkily catsuit-clad vigilantes danced in Tim Burton’s head when he crafted the sequel to his 1989 hit.

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