Tough Nuts to Crack: Fuller’s Shock Corridor (1982)
Sam Fuller occupies a pretty unique place, or rather places, in the Canons of Film Criticism. For the Cro-Magnites, Fuller is the great American primitive, swinging through the trees with…
Sam Fuller occupies a pretty unique place, or rather places, in the Canons of Film Criticism. For the Cro-Magnites, Fuller is the great American primitive, swinging through the trees with…
Introduction In 1980, Ronnie Scheib wrote an explicitly polemical auteurist piece on the films of Ida Lupino [1] . In 1996, Scheib visited Melbourne under the auspices of the Melbourne…
In Wim Wenders' The American Friend, actor-director Dennis Hopper kills off filmmaker Sam Fuller (star of Hopper's then seemingly last movie, The Last Movie, about a filmmaker making his last…
In his hagiography of American cinema, the Gospel according to St. Andrew, Sarris consigns Ida Lupino to outer limbo in a single sentence: "Ida Lupino's directed films express much of…
(‘Tex Arcana: The Cartoons of Tex Avery’, first published in Gerald Peary & Danny Peary (eds) The American Animated Cartoon: A Critical Anthology New York: Dutton, 1980. Republished with permission…
It’s not often a film comes along with a title that neatly sums up an entire decade, but Back to the Future seems to have done just that for the…
It would not be hard to “rediscover” scriptwriter Charles Schnee. Start out with his undisputed terrain, the Hollywood-on-Hollywood film: The Bad and the Beautiful and Two Weeks in Another Town,…
It seems that my compatriots, many of whom are increasingly put off by the elections, are making their way to the cinema as a barometer of their political sentiments, box…