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Vernon, Florida
09 Jun, 11:44 AM

Vernon, Florida is a portrait of America’s fringes, a document of a place that seems to have remained endearingly beholden to archaic mores. This is a romantic pretense, however, and those who admire the film will almost certainly find the real-life Vernon to be far more mundane and less folksy, but its history uncharacteristically perverse and violent.

Review by Rumsey Taylor / Comment

Burn Hollywood Burn
04 Jun, 4:46 PM

One of the most spectacular flops in history, the film effectively ended the careers of Joe Eszterhas and Arthur Hiller, and it also marked the end of its film studio, Cinergi Pictures. It’s as though the film succeeds at antagonizing those whom it satarizes, and in result it is so noxious that few have opted to encounter it.

Review by David Carter / Comment

Pitfall
03 Jun, 4:53 PM

Amid stark mountains of black coal and decrepit mining towns, traitors, backstabbers, and murderers carry out their soulless machinations. For those in power, selfishness and greed are the order of the day, and for the workingman, a bitter life of endless toil is rewarded only with a bitter afterlife of endless torment. And yet, beneath the caustic social commentary that dominates the film lies an almost imperceptible championing of the incorruptibility of the human spirit, injecting this otherwise bleak forecast for humanity with a modicum of hope.

Review by Thomas Scalzo / Comment

The Adventures of Gerard
02 Jun, 12:18 PM

Jerzy Skolimowski’s films of the sixties – edgy, innovative, and challenging – were so clearly part of the collective new wave sweeping national cinemas of the day that the choice of The Adventures of Gerard as the first film of his international career seems doubly perplexing; it offers almost no connections with the work that went before.

Review by Ian Johnston / Comment

Ferdydurke
23 May, 3:23 PM

Ferdydurke is the film that led to Jerzy Skolimowski’s seventeen-year silence as a director—a disappointed Skolimowski withdrew to his house in Malibu and devoted himself to painting and the occasional acting role (Mars Attacks!, Eastern Promises. You could say the film is doubly obscure: adapted from a Polish novel that remains untranslated in the West, and only seen in Poland, France and Latin America.

Review by Ian Johnston / Comment

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
22 May, 12:32 PM

The information the characters pursue is of no tangible value, and yet they frantically search for the truth, overwhelmed simply by their desire to know the answers denied them. Ruiz denies giving the audience a firm context for the film’s events, relying solely on their mutual curiosity with a mystery about which they know nothing.

Review by David Carter / Comment

R.O.T.O.R.
21 May, 10:45 AM

Despite a thin narrative and a preponderance of clumsy overdubs, groan inducing one-liners, and interminable camera pans, R.O.T.O.R. endures as a highly memorable and constantly entertaining film, immortalized by the legendary aura of Coldyron. Whether we’re watching him analyze, fight, dream, or soliloquize, the mere presence of the Captain guarantees that time with R.O.T.O.R. is time well spent.

Review by Thomas Scalzo / Comment

The Naked Island
20 May, 12:09 PM

The ability to get used to nearly anything is part of what keeps people alive, but it can also be responsible for nullifying any hope that things might one day improve. For a family so on the fringes of society, the notions of happiness and discontent never even seem to enter the picture. They exist; that will have to be enough for the foreseeable future.

Review by Michael Nordine / Comment

Ed Wood
19 May, 2:53 PM

Ed Wood’s story is – rather unexpectedly, and with surprising effectiveness — offered to us as an inspiration, the tale of an artist working hard to realize his unique and inimitable visions. That Wood’s films are odd and flawed ends up feeling quite secondary to the fact that they exist at all, and what’s more, that they are loved.

Review by Victoria Large / Comment

Woman in the Moon
18 Mar, 10:51 AM

Thea von Harbou, Lang’s wife and regular co-screenwriter through his German period, has, to say the least, been on the receiving end of some uniformly bad press. Lotte Eisner, Lang’s most faithful critic, is a good case in point, where any perceived weaknesses in the films (excessive melodrama, sentimentality, and so forth) are made Harbou’s fault and the strengths ascribed to Lang’s mastery as a director. Eisner particularly makes this point with Lang’s last two silent films, Spies and Woman in the Moon.

Review by Ian Johnston / Comment

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Vernon, Florida
09 Jun, 11:44 AM

Burn Hollywood Burn
04 Jun, 4:46 PM

Pitfall
03 Jun, 4:53 PM

The Adventures of Gerard
02 Jun, 12:18 PM

Ferdydurke
23 May, 3:23 PM

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
22 May, 12:32 PM

R.O.T.O.R.
21 May, 10:45 AM

The Naked Island
20 May, 12:09 PM

Ed Wood
19 May, 2:53 PM

Woman in the Moon
18 Mar, 10:51 AM

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Vernon, Florida09 Jun, 11:44 AM

Burn Hollywood Burn04 Jun, 4:46 PM

Pitfall03 Jun, 4:53 PM

The Adventures of Gerard02 Jun, 12:18 PM

Ferdydurke23 May, 3:23 PM

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting22 May, 12:32 PM

R.O.T.O.R.21 May, 10:45 AM

The Naked Island20 May, 12:09 PM

Ed Wood19 May, 2:53 PM

Woman in the Moon18 Mar, 10:51 AM

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Vernon, Florida
09 Jun, 11:44 AM

Burn Hollywood Burn
04 Jun, 4:46 PM

Pitfall
03 Jun, 4:53 PM

The Adventures of Gerard
02 Jun, 12:18 PM

Ferdydurke
23 May, 3:23 PM

The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
22 May, 12:32 PM

R.O.T.O.R.
21 May, 10:45 AM

The Naked Island
20 May, 12:09 PM

Ed Wood
19 May, 2:53 PM

Woman in the Moon
18 Mar, 10:51 AM