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On the Road (2012) 27 Aug 2013 | 06:09 pm
By Brandon Konecny. The adaptation of a novel to film is a difficult undertaking. Our judgment of a novel’s cinematic counterpart is, as Robert Stam perceptively points out, profoundly moralistic: we...
Film4 FrightFest 2013 | Day 1 27 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
The Dead 2: India By Cleaver Patterson. London’s Leicester Square may have been a washout on Thursday night, but that did not stop the annual FILM4 FrightFest festival getting off to a suitably grue...
Cinema Ritrovato 2013 Festival Report 24 Aug 2013 | 05:54 pm
La Jetee (1962) By Patrick Keating and Lisa Jasinski. During its eight day run in July 2013, the 27th Cinema Ritrovato Film Festival offered a dizzying schedule of screenings, conversations, and spe...
Elysium (2013) 24 Aug 2013 | 05:07 pm
By Steven Harrison Gibbs. I should begin by stating that I do not regularly indulge in assessing the average narrative film with politics near the forefront of my mind. When it comes to film criticis...
Becoming Traviata (2013) 21 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
By Jacob Mertens. A couple years ago, I traveled to England for an internship and decided that so long as I was on that side of the Ocean, I would go ahead and see Malta, Italy, and France as well. ....
The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh (2012) 20 Aug 2013 | 07:38 pm
By Cleaver Patterson. Films that sell themselves as horror movies generally fall into one of two camps. They either go for all-out viscerals, leaving little to the viewer’s imagination as they try to...
‘In Broad Daylight: Movies and Spectatorship After the Cinema’ by Gabriele Pedullà 18 Aug 2013 | 11:24 pm
A book review by Wheeler Winston Dixon. This slight but explosive volume, published in an English translation Verso in 2012, has been kicking around on my work desk for about a year. I wrote a rather...
Andy’s Gang, or Saturday Morning of the Living Dead 16 Aug 2013 | 05:46 pm
By Wheeler Winston Dixon. “There was a character that hung out in a clock called Froggy, the Magic Gremlin, and they used to say to him, ‘Plunk your Magic Twanger, Froggy!’ There was something about ...
Beyond the Hills, or The Woman’s Prison 16 Aug 2013 | 04:33 pm
By Christopher Sharrett. It amazes me that so few reviewers noted emphatically that Cristian Mungiu’s Beyond the Hills (2012), like his earlier 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (2007), is a film about women...
Shock Horror: An interview with Alan Jones, co-director of FILM4 FrightFest 2013 15 Aug 2013 | 08:31 pm
By Cleaver Patterson. Alan Jones is something of a legend within the world of fantasy and horror film journalism. In a career spanning over four decades he has reported from the set of the original ....
