For this year’s Switcheroo Month, I decided to write about a lesser known film by one of the most reputable directors around—Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well (1960). Set in then contemporary mid-Twentieth Century Japan, The Bad Sleep Well is the story of Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune) seeking […]
“Today, we’re policed by ads. Targeted with products and services by what a surveilling algorithm “thinks we’ll like.” But people usually know when they are being sold to and when they are being solicited for money. It is not always so clear, however, when a company is seeking […]
Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins watch ghostly love stories and talk about them on the Filmi Ladies podcast! “Duvidha (1973) and Paheli (2005): two very different films from the same source material, both fantastically successful in their own ways.” Listen and watch here.
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden watches Risto Jarva’s Time Of Roses (Finland, 1969). “Risto Jarva’s Time of Roses is a swinging 1960s and socially activist vision of the future set exactly 50 years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 2013. There is swinging lounge music, inflatable […]
Director, stunt performer and stunt coordinator Chad Stahleski is interviewed at Indiewire. “‘There is no reason to have a practically functioning gun on a set,’ Stahelski said. ‘To have a live round on a set is criminal. There isn’t a gun on our set that you could put […]
I told myself I wouldn’t do this. For the second year in a row, I’ve let Switcheroo Month, the time of year when us Gutterfolk write about reputable art instead of disreputable art, sneak up on me without an idea of what piece of reputable art I’d write […]
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