While the Cold War thawed in the late ’80s, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki chronicled that most unlikely of rock bands, the Leningrad Cowboys.
Read moreFassbinder’s “Querelle” got razzed for its music, but it was a bold and unapologetically homoerotic final statement from the iconoclastic filmmaker.
Read moreWith new documentary “Dario Argento Panico” on Shudder, there’s no better time to dig into the Italian Master of Horror’s back catalog.
Read moreA trio of ’80s post-apocalyptic exploitation films currently streaming on the Criterion Channel tests the adage about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery.
Read moreDueling psychics, vengeful samurai spirits, and deer hunting are some of the ingredients that went into this singular Christmas slasher.
Read moreSixty years ago, Georges Franju paid tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes with an affectionate remake of Louis Feuillade’s “Judex.”
Read moreForty years after its debut, “Michael Jackson’s Thriller” remains in a category all by itself.
Read moreWith 1983’s ‘The Dead Zone,’ David Cronenberg took on the all-American pastime of adapting a Stephen King novel.
Read more“We were young and making a feature film! I think that kind of enthusiasm has a lot to do with the […]
Read moreThe first film in the Criterion Channel’s “High School Horror” collection proves ordinary people make the scariest monsters.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreIn 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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