Tag Archives: avant garde

Review: Persona (1966)

Posted on March 3, 2014 | 4 comments

persona

Shot of a penis ten seconds in, this is gonna be my kind of film!

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Posted in 1960s, 400+ Word Reviews, Ingmar Bergman, Sweden

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Review: Permanent Vacation (1980)

Posted on February 3, 2014 | Leave a comment

permanent vacation

Once an outcast, always an outcast. That’s a saying, right?

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Posted in 1980s, 400+ Word Reviews, Jim Jarmusch, United States Of America

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This Week In Cinema: January 05-11, 2014

Posted on January 12, 2014 | Leave a comment

pas de deux

I’m about as far removed from graceful as one can get!

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Posted in 1910s, 1920s, 1950s, 1960s, 2000s, Alain Resnais, Canada, France, Harold M. Shaw, Holger Meins, James Sibley Watson, Jean-Luc Godard, Lindsay Anderson, Melville Webber, Norman McLaren, Robert Hessens, Seth Green, This Week In Cinema, United Kingdom, United States Of America, Walerian Borowczyk, West Germany

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This Week In Cinema: December 22-28, 2013

Posted on December 29, 2013 | Leave a comment

the signal

I was really sick this weekend, so we’re all going to pretend this was actually posted on Sunday, okay?

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Posted in 2000s, 2010s, Adam Yauch, Dan Bush, David Bruckner, David Gordon Green, France, Jacob Gentry, Jeffrey Hornaday, Jonathan Soler, Shane Acker, This Week In Cinema, United States Of America

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This Week In Cinema: December 08-14, 2013

Posted on December 15, 2013 | 2 comments

frozen

I live in Illinois, I’m used to living in an eternal winter!

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Posted in 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 2010s, Australia, Austria, Chad Hartigan, Chris Buck, Fred Zinnemann, Gerard Lee, Jane Campion, Jeffrey Friedman, Jennifer Lee, Jim Rash, Jonás Cuarón, Lauren MacMullen, Louis Schwartzberg, Nat Faxon, Ninja Thyberg, Peter Kubelka, Rob Epstein, Sweden, This Week In Cinema, United States Of America

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This Week In Cinema: November 10-16, 2013

Posted on November 17, 2013 | Leave a comment

window water baby moving

I’m trained to deliver babies, doesn’t mean I want to!

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Posted in 1950s, 1960s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Belgium, Charles Burnett, Christian Carion, Daniel Anker, France, Germany, Jan Lenica, Kenneth Anger, Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Marie Menken, Norway, Poland, Romania, Stan Brakhage, This Week In Cinema, United Kingdom, United States Of America, Walerian Borowczyk

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Splatter Time Fun Fest 2013: Santa Sangre (1989)

Posted on October 5, 2013 | 1 comment

santa sangre

My blood is far from holy, although I have given it enough of it through the years to support a small church!

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Posted in 1980s, 400+ Word Reviews, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Italy, Mexico, Splatter Time Fun Fest

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This Week In Cinema: September 08-14, 2013

Posted on September 15, 2013 | 2 comments

the play house

That Buster Keaton fellow seems to be the whole show!

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Posted in 1920s, 1980s, 1990s, Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Japan, Joel Schumacher, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, This Week In Cinema, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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This Week In Cinema: September 01-07, 2013

Posted on September 8, 2013 | 3 comments

smallsoldiers

My toy soldiers would have been screwed, they would have been dealing with magical barbarians and giant robots!

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Posted in 1900s, 1950s, 1980s, 1990s, 2010s, Bryce Wagoner, Christopher Maclaine, David Zucker, France, Gareth Edwards, Georges Méliès, Joe Dante, Len Lye, Roger Donaldson, This Week In Cinema, United Kingdom, United States Of America

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This Week In Cinema: August 11-17, 2013

Posted on August 18, 2013 | Leave a comment

the indian rubber head

I’ve been told that I have an inflated ego, which is kind of the same as an inflated head!

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Posted in 1890s, 1900s, 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, Auguste Lumière, Bruce Conner, Cuba, Dave Fleischer, Eric Darnell, France, G.W. Bitzer, Georges Méliès, Germany, Len Lye, Louis Lumière, Santiago Álvarez, This Week In Cinema, Tim Johnson, United Kingdom, United States Of America, Viking Eggeling

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