La Terra Trema (The Earth Trembles) was released in 1948 and directed and narrated by Luchino Visconti. The story follows a family in...

Did you love Matrix Resurrections? Watch these next: 1.) Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985) 2.) City of Lost Children - Marc Caro and...

Rome, Open City Rome, Open City, released in 1945 and directed by Roberto Rossellini, follows Giorgio Manfredi, a resistance leader...

According to the Kantian theory of Enlightenment, the essay "What is Enlightenment" defines it as "man's release from his self-incurred...

Dorothy and Manny’s scene starting at 14:28 and running until 20:02 minutes into the film showcases the importance of this seminal...

Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica and Germany, Year Zero by Roberto Rossellini present themselves similarly. These films are...

Kafka stands apart from most writers. His style is haunting and, to some, obtuse. Kafka was not a political writer, but he sympathized...

The past month I must have listened more actively and concretely than I have before, hoping to find the ideal forms of sound to speak of...

Doris Wishman was the infamous prolific sexploitation filmmaker from 1960s through the early 2000s completing thirty independent films...

Ackerman asserts that Jeanne Dielman is a feminist film for two important reasons. The first being that It is a woman’s viewpoint on the...

Gorfinkel's essay, "On Wanda's Slowness," looks to "reframe and reposition the film concerning a genealogy of women's filmmaking,...

The theme of doubling is ancient and can be found in primitive rituals and superstition’s such as twins being killed out of fear of...

It's been two years and a half since I written anything interesting and personal on my site. Since then a pandemic has ravaged the...

On June 29th, 2021, I headed to Lincoln Center on my way to watch Christian Petzold’s new film Undine. I chose this as my cultural...

Dir. Liza Johnson (USA) It's hard to hate when a comedic actor takes to serious dramatic roles and does it well. Kristen Wigg portrays...

There is so much to love about this film. The main character's independent but fierce camaraderie for each other, the expression of what...

Whose Afraid of Virgina Woolfe meets the Virgin Suicides meets A Doll's House. Decker, Josephine. "Shirley." Hulu, LAMF, 2020, USA. This...

(1988) Tim Burton USA So as part of our Two Dead Girls initiative, each week we are watching a "bardo" movie. Last week was Enter the...

Episodes 1 & 2 are available and online HERE! My experience with the American Book of the Dead is something I'm not sure I am able to...

Things to Do on a Pisces Full Moon We got Mantra, Yantra, Tantra gone amok - Margaret McDonnell Alright so, Tantra has a bad name. Maybe...