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Of all contemporary filmmakers alive today from Italy, or anywhere really, Lina Wertmüller is one who is not immediately visible in a canonical film history sense. Perhaps that is about to change. Kino Lorber has just released a box set ...

The skinhead lifestyle and uniform have been displayed intermittently in cinema since at least the early 1990’s, presented and received ambivalently, with open arms, or with disgust. What is confusing about the “boots and braces” look is that those who ...

  April (Amanda Fuller) and Eric (Ethan Embry) are a hipster couple who run a vintage clothing store in Austin, Texas. Eric seems to be having an affair with one of the store’s other employees, a speculation that moves April ...

“Nudists probably don’t go jogging.” From these first words spoken in the voiceover that dominates much of Yuya Ishii’s The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue, we are offered unexpected, often poetic insights. Other more morbid, ...

2005 brought us Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005), a completely over-the-top film full of humor, surrealist body horror and… dancing. Three directors—Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, and Shunichiro Miki—combined their warped visions to manifest a final product that is incomprehensible in ...

Peter: Aren’t you hungry? Joan: No darling, are you? Peter: Of course not. Joan: Are you sure? Above is the first exchange of dialog in Edgar G. Ulmer’s The Black Cat (1934). A newlywed couple, Peter (David Manners) and Joan ...

Since seeing the films of Maya Deren 17 years ago, I have continuously seen viewers fall in love with her screen presence with an immediacy that few other actors or filmmakers have. I may have met a few stoned college ...

Quite early in his career, Tobe Hooper became a formidable director with the success of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1974. There are some folks who dislike this film for whatever reason, but it has been championed by enough ...

David Cronenberg’s early feature Rabid (1977) has a 40th anniversary this year. It is hard to believe that his unique and influential style of body horror has been unleashed on the world for that long. Rabid comes after the similarly themed ...

The late Seijun Suzuki will be remembered as one of the most delirious, feral Japanese filmmakers of all time, not necessarily because of his entire cinematic output, but because of a few specific films that infuse noir with strains of ...