Welcome Home to the Faustian Penitentiary, Away from Emma Mae and the Street Wars
About the late blaxploitaiton auteur Jamaa Fanaka, who combined urban grit and sheer weirdness
DESERTERS
If you’re willing to put up with an abundance of low budget distraction you’ll find this to be one of the most interesting Canadian films of the 1980s
HITS, FLOPS, AND OTHER ILLUSIONS
In which a high-profile film director and TV producer recounts his “Fortysomething Years in Hollywood”
THE FALLS
An astonishing tapestry that’s comedic, alarming and poetic by turns, THE FALLS was the first feature by Peter Greenaway, who went for broke in a panoramic 194 minute epic
PRINCE OF DARKNESS
Some commentators would have you believe this film is one of John Carpenter’s biggest failures, while others maintain that it’s a masterwork—I say both views are wrong
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF AND GOD AGAINST ALL
The long-in-coming memoir by the German filmmaker and sometime actor Werner Herzog
PAUL BARTEL: THE LIFE AND FILMS
A solid, if not entirely satisfying, overview of the life and output of the late Paul Bartel
On KIN-DZA-DZA!
One of the world’s major science fiction films, regardless of whether the world knows about it or not
SUPERBMAN: THE OTHER MOVIE
The cinema of spoofery had one of its highpoints in this 1981 dismantling of SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE
TV Flashback: YOGI AT THE MOVIES
Yogi Berra, film critic?