The following post is by Trylon volunteer and programer John Moret who is a regular contributor to All-Star Video. The 1970s was a golden age for American Cinema. John Cassavetes should stand up next to Robert Altman as one of the reasons that is so. Unfortunately, he is too often… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Michael Popham. Count Dracula, Bram Stoker’s human vampire, who has chilled the spines of book readers and playgoers, is now to be seen at the Roxy in a talking film directed by Tod Browning, who delights in such bloodcurdling stories. It is a production that evidently… Continue reading
The following post is by Trylon volunteer and programer John Moret who is a regular contributor to All-Star Video. The title of this film is so illuminating. It is completely innocuous and completely definitive. Men of a certain age, feeling a certain weight of responsibility. Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie (Peter… Continue reading
Let me introduce you to Viola, Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro’s most recent film. Viola is also one of the six female characters that Piñeiro’s fictional film eavesdrops on as they discuss intricacies of acting and love. And Viola is also a lead role in the Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night, a… Continue reading
Last week we brought you what might be Cassavettes’ masterpiece, A Woman on Under the Influence, and this weekend we give you the master’s earliest work: Shadows and Faces, two of the very first great independent American features, from 1959 and 1968, respectively. In the nine years between these… Continue reading
Forget about nostalgia for 35mm – let’s talk about nostalgia for VHS! Josh Johnson’s new documentary, Rewind This!, revels in it. But nostalgia is just the tip of the iceberg: the advent of the VHS tape represents not only the great democratization of home viewing but also an era where… Continue reading
Our month long series featuring the films of John Cassavetes kicks off Friday with one of his best films, Woman Under the Influence – the first of five, all presented on 35mm. The following review is by Trylon volunteer David Berglund, who writes about the movies with his wife, Chelsea Berglund,… Continue reading
leviathan |ləˈvīəTHən| noun (in biblical use) a sea monster, identified in different passages with the whale and the crocodile (e.g., Job 41, Ps. 74:14), and with the Devil (after Isa. 27:1). • a very large aquatic creature, esp. a whale: the great leviathans of the deep. • a thing that… Continue reading
