Frank Perry and Jerry Schatzberg Show Us How to Be a Woman in the ’70s
Frank Perry and Jerry Schatzberg jolted audiences who weren’t used to unsatisfied and belittled housewives starring in a film, or to the concept of such people existing.
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When Is Film Noir Not Noir but Only Noir-esque?
These 1930-40 films by Robert Siodmak and Lewis Allen challenge the “noir” genre. What if, for example, noir-minded people made slapstick comedy?
Rum, Pregnancy, and the Lash, or, You Shall Know Them by Their Forbidden Fruits
Kino Lorber’s latest Forbidden Fruit crop yields The Lash of the Penitentes, The Wages of Sin, and Misery and Fortune of Women.
James Whale’s Film, ‘The Kiss Before the Mirror’, Is an Elegant Pre-Code Treat
James Whale’s pre-Code The Kiss Before the Mirror subverts the assumption of women as deceitful property
On Apes, Racism, and Other Shoddy Scams in 1930 African Adventure Film, ‘Ingagi’
Restored ‘Ingagi’ (1930) is an important influential film fit for neither man nor beast.
John Ford Silent Westerns ‘Straight Shooting’ and ‘Hell Bent’ Raise a Ruckus
We're treated to many eye-catching examples of John Ford's talents in Universal's 4K restoration of silent westerns Straight Shooting and Hell Bent, now available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber.
Exploitation Shenanigans ‘Test Tube Babies’ and ‘Guilty Parents’ Contend with the Aftermath
As with so many of these movies about daughters who go astray, Test Tube Babies blames the uptight mothers who never told them about S-E-X. Meanwhile, Guilty Parents exploits poor impulse control and chorus girls showing their underwear.
Rodd Rathjen Discusses ‘Buoyancy’, His Film About Modern Slavery
Rodd Rathjen's directorial feature debut, Buoyancy, seeks to give a voice to the voiceless men and boys who are victims of slavery in Southeast Asia.
Addicted to Drug Dramas “She Shoulda Said NO!” and “The Devil’s Sleep”
Films by Sam Newfield and W. Merle Connell in Kino Lorber's Forbidden Fruit series show how exploitation films are blueprints for mainstream cinema.
Douglas Sirk’s Oppressive and Beautiful Worlds
That today’s viewers can’t easily fall into the fantasy of Rock Hudson as an “Indian” distances and underlines the themes that make a Douglas Sirk rampantly phony film.
Susan Sontag’s ‘Duet for Cannibals’ Delves into the Games People Play
Is Susan Sontag's Duet for Cannibals a study in personal human behavior? Or is it an allegory of the seductions of fascism and power?
Romy Schneider Shimmers, Simmers, “Sautets” and “Zulawskis”
Directors Claude Sautet and Andrzej Zulawski turn the camera's gaze on the glorious Romy Schneider in these four drama, romance, and crime films available from Film Movement and Kino Lorber.