Depictions of the elderly body in horror most often hew toward the decrepit and the horrific, walking memento mori like the nude and aging cultists of Hereditary, the monstrous ma...
2022-04-18 19:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first screening of YOJIMBO begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-04-17 16:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's screening of UNFORGIVEN begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-04-13 22:27:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A manufactured image, like gossip, has cachet as a form of reality solely by virtue of its existence. The drawings of the Herbert House executed by arrogant young draughtsman R. Neville (Anthony Hi...
2022-04-11 02:39:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first screening of SWORD OF THE STRANGER begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-04-10 16:32:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I ’m on the sea! I’m on the sea!
I am where I would ever be;
With the blue above, and the blue below,
And silence wheresoe’er I go;
If a storm should come and awake t... 2022-04-08 02:42:40 +0000 UTC View Post
“I am eyeless in Gaza, betrayed to the Philistines,” sobs girls’ boarding school instructor Ms. Gribben (Eva Green), leaning against her student Di Radfield (Juno Temple). The treachery to wh...
2022-04-07 18:47:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's screening of LADY SNOWBLOOD begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-04-06 16:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
For April we're watching samurai movies in the Deadlights Theater!
HARAKIRI
LADY SNOWBLOOD
SWORD OF THE STRANGER
UNFORGIVEN
YOJIMBO
SWORD OF DOOM
SEVEN SAMURAI
13 ASSASSI...
Today's first screening of HARAKIRI begins at 1pm EST in the Deadlights Theater, with a second showing tonight at 7pm EST!
2022-04-03 15:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Forgive me as I write what is perhaps the most Frasierian sentence of my life, but a professor of mine once posited that when you approach literature through the lens of deconstructionism, you do n...
2022-04-03 13:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Few people can do “hapless” like Ben Gazzara, whose features are simultaneously so chiseled and so large that he appears cobbled together from parts in a kit. As dim-witted strip club owner Cos...
2022-04-01 20:48:45 +0000 UTC View Post
No director has ever made me feel such intense and aching love as has Peter Greenaway, both for the characters and settings of his lushly baroque films and for the medium he has mastered, reinterpr...
2022-03-30 02:20:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This afternoon's screening of SEXY BEAST begins at 5pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-03-27 18:51:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's screening of UNCUT GEMS begins at 9pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-03-23 19:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This afternoon's screening of DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE begins at 5pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-03-20 20:32:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A man plummets from a seventh story window, pushed not by his enemies but by the verbal urging of his superiors at a large construction firm subsidized by the public as part of the rebuilding of Ja...
2022-03-17 04:40:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's screening of THIEF begins at 7pm EST in the Deadlights Theater!
2022-03-16 17:34:16 +0000 UTC View Post
There’s a scene in Sandra Newman’s The Men in which an older white woman, realizing she’s alone in a Hispanic neighborhood, feels ashamed by her own racial paranoia and then doubly s...
2022-03-14 14:07:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Who eats, and who is eaten? Who drinks, and who is drained dry? Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan is preoccupied with such questions of hierarchy and gross exercise of power. The seizure of...
2022-03-12 04:02:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Lee Sang-il's Unforgiven, an adaptation of Clint Eastwood’s classic revisionist Western set in Hokkaido at the start of the Meiji period, begins in the snow. The line between life and de...
2022-03-11 05:55:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the dream at the heart of fascism: a room where you can do anything. With violence physical, mental, and economic you push the world to its breaking point, shoving its constituent parts fur...
2022-03-08 04:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post
For March we're watching heist flicks in the Deadlights Theater!
JACKIE BROWN
RESERVOIR DOGS
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 1, 2, 3
THIEF
DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE
UNCUT GEMS
SEXY BEAST...
Tonally, Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is one of New French Extremity’s most pronounced oddities. What begins as a grindhouse revenge flick veers into cheesy Saw-esque torture thea...
2022-03-02 18:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Consumption — there’s a loaded word, bridging the gap between the physical act of eating and the more abstracted capitalist act of purchasing goods and services for purposes ranging fr...
2022-02-27 02:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living,” wrote Marx in his essay The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. It’s a sentiment which...
2022-02-26 05:34:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A PDF of Manhunt for all patrons at the $10 level and above! I hope you enjoy it <3
2022-02-24 03:14:13 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s an old story; a man in his prime taking a younger boy, one on the cusp of manhood, under his wing and then into his bed. The Spartans and their boy lovers, the knight and his squire, the Rom...
2022-02-08 23:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post
“Hold your balloon tight,” says the nameless father of a nameless child as the pair see little Tonio’s (Dominique Maurin) balloon string cut by a slammed car door. “See what can happen to i...
2022-02-08 06:32:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Werckmeister Harmonies’ two-hour and twenty-minute running time consists of only 39 shots, most at eye-level, most constantly or near-constantly on the move at paces varying bet...
2022-02-07 16:14:13 +0000 UTC View Post