By Yasmina Tawil
Of the many delightful methods by which one might remind a friend of their own mortality, nones more effective than movie release dates. Simply mention to a pal that a child born during a screening of The Lion Kingcan legally purchase a beer in the present day and like a shot, hes holding his head in his hands and contemplating his inexorable march to oblivion. When some schlub clicks onto a...
By Yasmina Tawil
Of the many delightful methods by which one might remind a friend of their own mortality, none’s more effective than movie release dates. Simply mention to a pal that a child born during a screening of The Lion Kingcan legally purchase a beer in the present day and like a shot, he’s holding his head in his hands and contemplating his inexorable march to oblivion. When some schlub clicks onto a...
By Yasmina Tawil
When Wes Craven died on August 30, 2015, at the age of 76, most of his obituaries dwelt on three films: Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. Thats understandable. Craven worked for decades and directed dozens of features. Yet, each in their own way, those three films changed the direction of the horror genre. Theyll be the ones for which Craven is best remembered, even if...
By Yasmina Tawil
When Wes Craven died on August 30, 2015, at the age of 76, most of his obituaries dwelt on three films: Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream. That’s understandable. Craven worked for decades and directed dozens of features. Yet, each in their own way, those three films changed the direction of the horror genre. They’ll be the ones for which Craven is best remembered, even...
By Yasmina Tawil
I willkiss your mouth, John the Baptist. Her red lips mere inches from his unnaturally wine-colored ones, her nose almost touching his, Salome speaks to the prophet with a slow, incantatory deliberateness. She has lavished florid praise on his white skin and his black hair, to no avail. She has endured his condemnations Daughter of Sodom, he calls her, or Daughter of Babylon and taken sadistic...
By Yasmina Tawil
“I willkiss your mouth, John the Baptist.” Her red lips mere inches from his unnaturally wine-colored ones, her nose almost touching his, Salome speaks to the prophet with a slow, incantatory deliberateness. She has lavished florid praise on his white skin and his black hair, to no avail. She has endured his condemnations – Daughter of Sodom, he calls her, or Daughter of Babylon – and taken...
By Yasmina Tawil
A few months ago, Flicker Alley released the Blu-ray anthology 3-D Rarities, collecting some of cinemas early 3-D experiments, alongside shorts and trailers from the formats 1950s heyday. Those first, furtive efforts are especially fun. In brief tests and demo reels made in the 1920s, pioneers like Jacob Leventhal, William van Doren Kelley, Frederic Eugene Ives, and William T. Crespinel tried to...
By Yasmina Tawil
A few months ago, Flicker Alley released the Blu-ray anthology 3-D Rarities, collecting some of cinema’s early 3-D experiments, alongside shorts and trailers from the format’s 1950s heyday. Those first, furtive efforts are especially fun. In brief tests and demo reels made in the 1920s, pioneers like Jacob Leventhal, William van Doren Kelley, Frederic Eugene Ives, and William T. Crespinel tried to...
