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On FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART

I believe FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART is the most exciting and comprehensive film book I’ve seen, period

The most fearsome and notorious Frederick Wiseman documentary of them all

I’m very sorry to bid farewell to Sir Alan Parker, who passed on July 31

Speaking as one who quite literally grew up watching his films, I couldn’t help but gravitate toward this, Oliver Stone’s long-in-coming memoir

This hefty study of David Cronenberg’s THE BROOD is, quite simply, the most thorough and wide-ranging textual analysis of a horror movie ever written

A rape-revenge drama from Bulgaria, and a most unlikely Great Film inductee

For fans of ERASERHEAD, and the output of Mr. Lynch, I feel confident in proclaiming this book an absolute must-read

Playful is the word for this Soviet era quasi-documentary from the late Elem Klimov (1933-2003)

Here we pay homage to one of screen’s pre-eminent visual stylists and most irrepressible troublemakers

It’s an interesting thing about Woody Allen: not too long ago he was considered the epitome of class and sophistication, but now he’s a pariah