Craig J. Clark, Author at CrookedMarquee

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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Scene of an Anatomy: Kyle MacLachlan in <i>Blue Velvet</i> — Craig J. Clark

Scene of an Anatomy: Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet

May 22nd, 2019

In the 2016 documentary David Lynch: The Art Life, one of the stories Lynch recounts from his childhood is the time a naked woman appeared out of the...

In Memory of Dick Miller: The Many Lives (and Deaths) of Walter Paisley

Feb 4th, 2019

Ring rubber bells, beat cotton gongs, strike silken cymbals, play leathern flutes. The cats and cans and you and I and all such things with...

The Dark Side of Oscar: The Academy Awards and Film Noir

Jan 22nd, 2019

For the second year, Turner Classic Movies’ weekly trip to Noir Alley – hosted by Eddie Muller, founder and president of the Film Noir Foundation...

Craig J. Clark Says Don't Forget: <i>The Endless</i> — Craig J. Clark

Craig J. Clark Says Don't Forget: The Endless

Dec 26th, 2018

The filmmaking duo of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead have consistently proven they know how to work within budget limitations to produce subtly...

Craig J. Clark Says Don't Forget: <i>Golden Exits</i> — Craig J. Clark

Craig J. Clark Says Don't Forget: Golden Exits

Dec 26th, 2018

In the midst of his Elisabeth Moss trilogy (consisting of Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth, and Her Smell), indie auteur Alex Ross Perry marshaled...

Dreaming of a Red Christmas (Martian, Not Communist)

Dec 11th, 2018

Christmas stories and tales of space exploration both appeal to an audience’s sense of wonder, so it’s only natural that filmmakers have...

The Porpoise Is Laughing: 50 Years of <i>Head</i> — Craig J. Clark

The Porpoise Is Laughing: 50 Years of Head

Nov 5th, 2018

Fifty years ago, at the height of their popularity as television personalities and platinum-selling recording artists, The Monkees — Micky Dolenz,...

Woody Who? <i>Another Woman</i> Belongs to Gena Rowlands — Craig J. Clark

Woody Who? Another Woman Belongs to Gena Rowlands

Oct 29th, 2018

In the 35 years Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes were married (from 1954 until his death in 1989), she starred in seven of the dozen features he...

Scene of an Anatomy: Klaus Tange in <i>The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears</i> — Craig J. Clark

Scene of an Anatomy: Klaus Tange in The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears

Aug 23rd, 2018

Based on the evidence of their early shorts and first two features – 2009’s Amer and 2013’s The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears –...

<i>Pineapple Express</i> and David Gordon Green's Lowbrow Trilogy — Craig J. Clark

Pineapple Express and David Gordon Green's Lowbrow Trilogy

Aug 1st, 2018

When Pineapple Express was released in the summer of 2008, it was seen as a major departure for director David Gordon Green, best known at the time...

Anything Guys Can Do, Girls Can Do Also

Jun 11th, 2018

Nestled among this spring’s blockbusters, two mid-tier comedies – Overboard and Life of the Party – provided audiences with alternatives in...

Just Passing Through: A Catalog of Benign Alien Visitations

May 22nd, 2018

FORD PREFECT: Oh, Zaphod, this is a friend of mine, Arthur Dent. I saved him when his planet blew up. ZAPHOD BEEBLEBROX: Oh sure, hi, Arthur, glad...

James Ivory, Screenwriter: A Primer

Mar 20th, 2018

With his Best Adapted Screenplay win for Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory received some long-overdue recognition from the Academy. (He also became,...

Unnatural Desires: <i>The Shape of Water</i>’s Amphibious Ancestors — Craig J. Clark

Unnatural Desires: The Shape of Water’s Amphibious Ancestors

Jan 31st, 2018

From the moment the project was announced, the easy conclusion to jump to was that The Shape of Water was Guillermo del Toro’s sneaky way of making...

<i>Baghead</i>: 10 Years Ago, the Duplass Brothers Almost Strangled Mumblecore in Its Cradle — Craig J. Clark

Baghead: 10 Years Ago, the Duplass Brothers Almost Strangled Mumblecore in Its Cradle

Jan 15th, 2018

“You know, Hollywood has us convinced that it takes a hundred million dollars to make a quality piece of art, and that’s a piece of crap...

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