Enjoy this salvaged 1984 performance of Yukio Ninagawa’s Medea! The peformances, costumes and design are incredible. “This is an RF-rip of Yukio Ninagawa’s 1984 performance of Medea, aka, 王女メディア. Released by Toho video only on VHS….This performance itself was referenced in an episode of Chris Marker’s The Owl’s […]
This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
At Precast Reinforced Concrete Heart, Ray Newman has suggestions for when you’ve run out of official BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas eeriness. “The short films and television episodes listed below aren’t all ghost stories. And they weren’t all produced by the BBC. Some are lighter, some are darker. […]
At Filmi Ladies, Pitu Sultan and Beth Watkins share two of their comfort films! “What do you watch when you need a hug from the screen? For us, it’s American comedies When Harry Met Sally (1989) and Legally Blonde (2001). What, like it’s hard?” Listen here.
The Comics Journal has an interview with Francesco Matteuzzi and Luca Debus. “In 2023, a comics biography of Charles Schulz was published by Top Shelf, written and drawn by two Italian comic book artists: writer Francesco Matteuzzi and artist Luca Debus. The book was published directly in the […]
At RogerEbert.com, Matt Zoller Seitz remembers the legendary Tony Todd. “Tony Todd was an elegant, six-foot-five, broad shouldered man, graceful and imposing. But he led with his voice. Hear it once, and it would echo in your mind forever. It was magnificent. And he was magnificent.” Read more here.