Tag Archives: gender
Link Dump: #55
The first kitty of 2012 comes from the British horror movie Kill List. Look at it! It’s eating from the dinner table! The same table that’s poisoned by marital discord. But at least the kitty’s cute. Anyway, here’s a collection … Continue reading
One Hour Mark: The Piano
This is a curious image from 1:00:00 into Jane Campion’s masterpiece The Piano (1993). It’s from a performance within the film – a Bluebeard shadow play that’s just been interrupted by several angry Maoris. The main characters are all in … Continue reading
Lady Gaga wants your horror and your design
“April is the cruellest month,” as Eliot said, and horror is the cruellest genre, so don’t the two kind of go together? It may look all sunlight and flowers outside, but underneath that is perversion, sadism, and severed ears. Probably. … Continue reading
While Johnny Guitar Gently Weeps
Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar (1954) is technically a western, but it distorts many elements of the genre until they’re barely recognizable. It’s a very strange, fascinating, and beautiful film. Basically, it’s about the conflict between two unyielding women, Vienna (Joan … Continue reading
My Favorite Movies: Glen or Glenda
Favorite movies don’t always overlap with the canon of great movies. Sometimes they’re not even good. I wouldn’t call this selection a “guilty pleasure,” really; instead, it’s a movie made with so little talent and so much enthusiasm that I … Continue reading
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