Rapture House
Rapture House has created a variety of avant garde projects, outre in both subject matter and execution. Consisting in part of the husband and wife team of Polly Frost and…
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The Shorty Q&A With Robin Maxwell
Female pirates, Leonardo DaVinci’s mother and cross-dressing, the sex lives of kings. Robin Maxwell writes about the parts of history that don’t air on PBS specials.
Bettie Page: Bangs, Bondage and Beyond
How One Accidental Pin-Up Changed the Face of Feminism Forever
Fade to Orange: Michelle Orange’s Film Link Happening
I don’t know what to tell you about The Golden Globes, I missed them because I was out celebrating with a friend. We went to see Godard’s rarely screened Made…
Fade to Orange: Michelle Orange’s Film Link Implosion
The ladies! The ladies! Slate’s Movie Club is back and this year it’s allll woman. I love this thing, it’s the best thing about the crummy first week of the…
Counter-Revolutionary Road
An economy + link by Josh Bearman There is much to say about Revolutionary Road. I’m talking about the film, which I can’t stop thinking about. There is also much…
The Eyeball: Fellini’s Amarcord
I Remember Last night I met up with some of my former Amazon colleagues, guys who, like me, served tours of duty on the DVD team, to watch Fellini’s Amarcord…
THE EYEBALL: What I Watched This Weekend, Yojimbo
I’m fascinated by cultural cross-pollination when it comes to art. The Beatles dug Buddy Holly, the psychedelic bands of San Francisco dug the Beatles, the Britpop bands of the nineties…
A Rabid Fan of the Novel Revolutionary Road Compares It to the Film
It has come to my attention that you keep adapting my favorite novels [see Atonement, Revolutionary Road, et. al.], and turning them into mediocre movies. Cease and desist! Get your own ideas!
The Shorty Q&A with Johnathan Hillstrand
“Hell, if I’d jumped on all the dames I’m supposed to have jumped on, I’d have had no time to go fishing.” —Clark Gable
Fade To Orange: Michelle Orange’s Random Film Links
At my old stomping grounds, The Reeler, there is a great interview with Arnaud Desplechin, the French director of the excellent A Christmas Tale, current sweetheart of the critical set.…