This year marks the 20th anniversary of The Cultural Gutter. Author and game developer Jim Munroe founded The Cultural Gutter and posted his first essay here on May 22, 2003. In 2004, Jim invited comic artist and critic Guy Leshinski to join the Gutter. They created a manifesto […]
The Gutter’s own Carol Borden has some thoughts about Carlos Coneiçao’s Tommy Guns / Naçao Valente (Portugal, 2023) at Monstrous Industry! “I recently watched Jean-Denis’ A Woman Kills / La femme borreau (1968) and while A Woman Kills was made a half a century ago, during a time […]
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 […]
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.
1972’s Night of the Lepus is one of the last stalwarts of a grand storytelling tradition, all too rare in our decadent, expertise-skeptical times–a tradition that dares to preface the feature with a dry, informative lecture. No time to thread exposition into character-revealing events and dialogue; we begin […]
If you pay any attention at all to popular Hindi cinema, then probably you will have heard of Sholay, often considered the best-loved Hindi movie of all time.* There is huge respect and affection for this film—for its cast, director, music, and script. Sometimes omitted from discussions of […]
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