Somehow, even in 2019, Shannon Murphy (debut as director) and writer Rita Kalnejais (from her book) add enough to the subgenre of quirky, coming of age comedy dramas where a character passes from a disease,
Pedro Almodóvar is not an auteur with long, quiet stretches between films. He works quickly (doubly remarkable given he writes his own screenplays) so it is certainly notable that between big breakthrough films like Women
Dario Argento’s Inferno is the second leg in The Three Mothers trilogy starting with Suspiria in 1977 and finally culminating in Mother of Tears in 2007. This is already Argento’s seventh film- his debut
Sandwiched between two gigantic musicals (West Side Story in 1961 and The Sound of Music in 1965— also made Two for the Seesaw in this stretch as well in 1962) Robert Wise made one of
Sam Raimi’s sixth film assembles a dream cast and crew. This was largely Sharon Stone’s project (she had a hand in the casting as well- including selecting Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe at a time
This marks Pedro Almodovar’s eighth film (six in the archives)- a very busy decade (debut in 1980). Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! Also makes for five archiveable films with actor and collaborator Antonio Banderas
John Huston’s bleak Fat City opens with longer take observing Stacy Keach (as Tully) in his depressing, tiny jail cell of an apartment. This is Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt and in that Huston is
Heck Harvey directs Carnival of Souls- an early 1960s low budget horror film starring Candace Hilligoss as Mary Henry. It is part Lynne Ramsay (a past trauma—a drag racing accident- leaves the protagonist an empty
Freud is a substantial biopic (running 140 minutes) and a solid addition to the resumes of both John Huston and star Montgomery Clift. The first of eighteen Academy Award nominations for Jerry Goldsmith (score for
Steven Soderbergh’s The Good German is steeped in pastiche. Even the marvelous poster apes Casablanca. However, the sort of real life documentary footage used to open the film is just not how these studio films
