War as absurdity: Kihachi Okamoto’s Desperado Outpost
Desperado Outpost (Dokuritsu gurentai, Japan, 1959) starts with shots of a man on horseback in a landscape reminiscent of a…
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Henry Fonda gone bad, one of cinema’s most memorable endings with two of the greatest outlaws on screen fading into…
Overstepping genre boundaries: Séance and Séance on a Wet Afternoon
Bryan Forbes’s Séance on a Wet Afternoon (UK, 1964) starts with mystery-filled images of a séance; Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Séance (Korei,…
Screengem: The ‘Comanche Uprising’ fictional movie poster from… Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)
While very much a buddy movie, thrilling potboiler and rambling revisionist period piece, at its core Once Upon a Time…
Double Feature: Speed (1994) and Paterson (2016)
First of all, credit for highlighting the potentiality of this double feature must go to my friend Rachael Jones, who…
La Gomera: In Conversation with Costume Designer Dana Paparuz
On a little island in the Canaries with very rocky terrain that in times past made communication very difficult in…
What remains of the Samurai? – Seven Samurai and 13 Assassins
When I was informed about this month’s “double feature” topic, I spontaneously decided to write about Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai…
Women and Men Share Friendships, Professions, Safari Style, and About Every Frame in Howard Hawks’ Hatari!
What drew me to Howard Hawks’ safari film, Hatari!, in the first place was something I had read about one of…
Frustrations of the Family Dynamic in Joanna Hogg’s Archipelago
Joanna Hogg’s second feature film follows in the footsteps of her first. Like Unrelated (2007), Archipelago (2010) is a brutally…
