The Strange Case of the Dueling Klaus Kinski Memoirs
In my view that late Klaus Kinski’s most memorable accomplishment was his autobiography, an astounding cavalcade of madness and perversion
On “Holy Indies” and Armageddon
As long as there have been movies, it seems, there have been evangelical films
Alice in Euroland
There must have been something in the air. How else to explain what happened in Europe during the 1970s, when four world-renowned filmmakers inexplicably elected to ditch their usual fare in favor of bizarre ALICE IN WONDERLAND-inspired phantasmagorias?
Sexuality and Religiosity and Violence and War and Love and Everything: The Cinema of Fernando Arrabal
Arrabal’s films are very much in the mode of Bunuel’s seminal UN CHIEN ANDALOU, which, you’ll recall, opened with a close up of an eyeball being slashed and continued in that vein, outraging, scandalizing and shocking cineastes the world over.
Remembering Bob Clark
On the morning of April 4, 2007, movie director Bob Clark was killed, together with his son Ariel, when a drunk driver swerved into the lane in which the two were driving on CA’s Pacific Coast Highway in the Pacific Palisades
Ray Dennis Steckler Has Passed
One of the most unique filmmaking careers imaginable has come to a permanent end
The Horror and Fantasy Cinema of Juraj Herz
Juraj Herz is the Czech Republic’s cinematic master of all things fantastic
REEL TERROR
I’ll give this volume, in which author David Konow attempts to chronicle the entire 100-plus year history of horror cinema, points for ambition
RAISING HELL: KEN RUSSELL AND THE UNMAKING OF THE DEVILS
In my view this is one of the very few essential movie making-of books, seeing as how it tells the story of one of the standout films of the 1970s: Ken Russell’s delirious 1971 masterpiece THE DEVILS
STANLEY KUBRICK’S THE SHINING: STUDIES IN THE HORROR FILM
This exhaustive (and frankly exhausting) 750 page anthology can safely be termed the definitive resource on Stanley Kubrick’s THE SHINING