Camera Obscura: SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER
“After all, Gore, it is my play.” —Tennessee Williams, author “Yes, all forty-five minutes of…
Year of the Month: Persia on BELLE DE JOUR
One of the local libraries holds its annual used book sale right around my birthday,…
Caitlin Casiello on Nagisa Oshima’s SING A SONG OF SEX and the Question of Rape, Fantasy, and Politics
Content warning: This post contains discussions of rape; the film contains explicit scenes of rape…
SCENIC ROUTE: Order Of The Stick #75, “The Blame Game” or “You’re right. My Bad.”
This early strip of The Order Of The Stick is obviously amusing, but I’m also struck by…
Celebrating the Living: Bob Mackie
With Bob Mackie, it’s a bit tempting to just put up a slide show. Some…
Attention Must Be Paid: Angela Morley
It’s not terribly surprising that the first few people to transition while working in the…
Disney Byways: So What’s With All the Chimps?
It is surprisingly difficult to find a definitive list of Disney Chimp Films, not helped…
A Brief Soderbergh Escapade: “Winston”
Next January, it will have been a decade since I’ve started this project of chronicling…
Year of the Month: FOREVER CHANGES and a “Bummer in the Summer (of Love)”
In attendance at a 1968 recording session for the Doors, Joan Didion called them “missionaries…
Year of the Month: Roland Saint-Laurent on SON OF GODZILLA
Jun Fukuda’s Son of Godzilla is possibly the most-hated entry in the Showa era of…