INVISIBLE ADVERSARIES
The debut feature by the Austrian performance artist Valie Export was this avant-garde take on INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
CINEMA SPECULATION
Passionate and entertaining writing on cinema by the one and only Quentin Tarantino
Marilyn Monroe Biopics
The release of BLONDE caps a long line of films about the late Norma Jeane Baker, a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe
EL HOMBRE DESNUDO
Here’s the most outrageous entry in the 1970s revisionist western craze
Science Fiction Unfilmed: RONNIE ROCKET, INTERFACE, and THE TOURIST
I feel that had these scripts been filmed the face of cinema may well have been transformed irrevocably
MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD
The undoubted magnum opus of Italy’s Sergio Martino, and possibly the most ambitious entry in the Italian cannibal movie cycle
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
A film that was quite controversial upon its initial release in 1971 and remains a topic of enormous contention
ZARDOZ
A novelization as weird as just about any you’ll read, and no wonder: the film it novelizes, the 1974 science fiction oddity ZARDOZ, is one of the absolute nuttiest releases of its decade
THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
A surrealist prank of a movie from the incomparable Luis Buñuel
CIMINO: THE DEER HUNTER, HEAVEN’S GATE AND THE PRICE OF A VISION
A frustrating and inconclusive book, although that’s an inevitability give its subject: the notoriously hermetic Michael Cimino