Zach Vasquez JG Ballard and the Cinema of the Millennium Nov 30th, 2020With "Crash" out on Blu-ray this week from Criterion, we look back at the various attempts to translate JG Ballard's work to the screen.
Zach Vasquez It Must Run in the Family: The Cinematic Lineage of Eraserhead, The Brood, and Possession Oct 28th, 2020How three films – by David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Andrzej Zulawski – redefined genre cinema, and the films of their children continued...
Zach Vasquez Scorsese and Schrader in the Wilderness: September 1985, Revisited Sep 16th, 2020The once and future collaborators' path from 'The Last Temptation of Christ' to 'After Hours' to 'Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters' to 'The Last...
Zach Vasquez You Lose: The Sports Films of Michael Ritchie Aug 25th, 2020Director Michael Ritchie veered from character studies to commercial comedies, but throughout his filmography, the subject of sports (and a cynical...
Zach Vasquez Latinxploitation: On the Complicated History of Whitewashing and Brownface in the Movies Aug 10th, 2020 In recent weeks and months, Hollywood’s legacy of cultural appropriation and racism has come under increased scrutiny, with the latest controversy...
Zach Vasquez Get Out of this Machine: How Seventies Cinema Confronted the American Police State Jul 7th, 2020 Truffaut’s famous dictum regarding the impossibility of ever making a truly anti-war film is, usually, equally applicable to movies about...
Zach Vasquez The Fascinating Provocations of Stuart Gordon's American Trilogy Jun 9th, 2020 With the passing of Stuart Gordon this past March, cinema lost one of its great provocateurs. An agitator and enemy of good taste from the start of...
Zach Vasquez Hazy Nightmare Visions: Dream Logic in the Cinema of Robert Altman Jun 1st, 2020 There are lots of stories about Robert Altman that solidify his reputation as the most ‘maverick’ filmmaker of his generation, but perhaps none...
Zach Vasquez Crimson Tide at Twenty-Five: A Muscular Action Masterpiece for Bleeding Hearts May 11th, 2020 Several years ago, while parsing out my love for the films of the late, lamented Tony Scott, I came to a realization: I am a Crimson Tide guy,...
Zach Vasquez Gateway to Gonzo Cinema: Where the Buffalo Roam at 40 Apr 24th, 2020 These days, Hunter S. Thompson is arguably more famous as a movie character than he is a writer. Founder of the ‘Gonzo’ school of journalism...
Zach Vasquez Looking Back: The Straight Story Apr 7th, 2020 Of all the strange things to be found throughout the films of David Lynch, one of the most startling comes at the very beginning of his 1999 road...
Zach Vasquez The Burnt Celluloid Heresies of Charles Willeford Mar 6th, 2020 A Georgia good ol’ boy who takes a vow of silence until he achieves his dream of becoming the world’s greatest cockfighter. A blithe psychopath...
Zach Vasquez Overlooked '99: Titus Dec 26th, 2019 1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There were countless articles in 2019 marking the 20th anniversaries of...
Zach Vasquez Zach Vasquez Says Don't Forget: One Cut of the Dead Dec 22nd, 2019 Of the four zombedies released this year — also including The Dead Don’t Die, Little Monsters, and Zombieland: Double Tap — it’s the...
Zach Vasquez Overlooked '99: Felicia's Journey Nov 12th, 2019 1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in 2019 marking the 20th...
