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The Patron Saint of the Impossible: Francesco Munzi’s Black Souls
In her 1980 review of film critic Pauline Kael’s collection, When the Lights Go Down, Renalta Adler names “physical violence depicted in explicit detail” as one of the “four things she [Kael] likes.”...
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Baked Goods: Encountering Sean Baker’s Cinema
During the theatrical release of his fourth film, Starlet, Filmmaker magazine interviewed Sean Baker. At one point, he sketched out an artistic statement of sorts: “I’m drawn to films that blur that...
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Doublings: A Review of The Mend
Lewd and lucid, John Magary’s first feature-length film is about family problems, about a family of fuck ups. Shambolic, shaggy, bearded, leather-jacketed Mat (Josh Lucas) enters the lives of his more...
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Coolness, Class, and the Canon: Blue Velvet vs. Something Wild
Released within a month of each other in the fall of 1986, Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch) and Something Wild (dir. Jonathan Demme) have so much in common it’s like they emerged simultaneously from the...
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On the Unholy Family in American Horror Film
In a remote but thriving corner of the American horror genre, the unholy family resides in secret, in a house far from others, surrounded by the totems and relics of a private order. Both persisting...
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When the Car Won’t Start: The Somnambulant Body Melt of The Incredible...
EDITOR’S NOTE: When the Car Won’t Start is a semi-regular column by Steck that explores under-appreciated horror flicks, b-movies, and exploitation films. Post-traumatic experiences are the...
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DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN: An Interview with David Lynch and Marek Zebrowski
“The desolate factories of Lodz sitting still and silent with only the memories of machines” “A beautiful woman walks through the streets of Lodz at night, carrying a heavy burden — her...
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Ideal Home Noise (5): Hairy Who, McCormack, German
The fifth installment in Jeff Jackson’s monthly column for Fanzine, Ideal Home Noise, in which he rounds up some of the more compelling recent releases you should think about letting loose in your...
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Oscars 2016: The Year of the Boycott
Again another lousy year for Oscar fans, for the shame of the all-white casting couches is reducing our once solid enthusiasm like the sun trained on an icicle. Spike Lee won the honorary Oscar award...
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The Dissonance in Terence Malick’s Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups, the seventh feature film from Terence Malick, opens with a quote from The Pilgrim’s Progress, the 17th century religious poem written by John Bunyan. The subsequent film is divided...
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