“A Musical Journey through Italian and Neapolitan Gangster Movies”
At My Analog Journal, Dario Bassalino dj’s a journey through the soundtracks of Italian and Neapolitan gangster movies. Listen here.
“The Unravelling of an Expert on Serial Killers”
Lauren Collins considers the curious case of Stéphane Bourgoin. “Stéphane Bourgoin became famous through his jailhouse interviews with murderers. Then an anonymous collective of true-crime fans began investigating his own story.” Read more here.
Filmi Ladies: The Kapoors: Raj!
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins continue their look the first family of Hindi cinema with a look at Raj Kapoor! “When you’re talking about Indian movies, he’s a cine qua non [note from editor: stop it]: Raj Kapoor (1924–1988). We look […]
Batman: The Silent Motion Picture
Behold a silent film edit of Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) here! (Thanks, Mark!)
Heat and Dust
Merchant and Ivory’s India-set films tend to rip out my heart and stomp on it—in a good way. Two years ago I wrote about Shakespeare-Wallah for Switcheroo Month, and here I am again, this time with a sort of bildungsroman, complicated by imperial socio-political goings-on. Heat and Dust […]
“Aard Labour Conclusion: Unmourned and Unloved”
At Freaky Triggers, Tom Ewing concludes a massive project, reading and pondering Dave Sim’s Cerebus. “In writing these posts, I’ve written about Cerebus as it’s legally available now: organised by phonebook collections. I’ve separated the 6000 pages of work from the many extra thousands of backmatter, even ignoring […]
The Cultural Gutter 