At the Criterion blog, Imogen Sara Smith writes about Noir Westerns. “Westerns cover a lot of territory. Dramatizing the most romantic of American myths, they also give form to the darkest inversions of those myths. The genre that celebrated rugged pioneer values and civilization’s conquest of the wilderness […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Sharksploitation (USA, 2023), Stephen Scarlata’s new documentary about sharksploitation! “I was one of those kids that was scarred by Jaws (1975). I worried about sharks in the bathtub.* I was scared in the pool. And getting me to swim […]
Friend of the Gutter Michelle Kisner on Kinji Fukasaku’s 1968 film, Black Lizard! “Villains can be alluring and enchanting and, if executed correctly, can hold the audience in the palm of their hands. Kinji Fukasaku’s film Black Lizard (1968) has one such outlaw, Mrs. Midorikawa (Akihiro Miwa), AKA […]
At the Filmi Ladies podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins discuss Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca and the Hindi adaptation, Kohraa! “We read Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, watched the 1940 Hitchcock adaptation, then watched Biren Nag’s 1964 Hindi adaptation Kohraa. There’s much to love in all […]
Did I choose to write about this film because it is currently on Netflix with subtitles and thus more available than hundreds of other things I might have selected? Yes. Does it have something to offer the Gutter reader other than availability? Absolutely. Amrapali (1966) is one of […]
At The Freesound Blog, Craig Smith writes about preserving sound effects from the Sunset Editor Sound Effects Library at the University of Southern California. “Sunset Editorial had a low-key history in Hollywood. Not a lot is known about them. This is because their credits in films were usually […]
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