Friend of the Gutter Mike White interviews filmmaker Mattie Do, director of the sf / time travel / thriller / horror movie set in Laos, The Long Walk (Laos, 2019)! “Mattie Do discusses her career from being a ballet instructor to suddenly directing horror features in Laos.” Listen […]
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 watches Country Gold (USA, 2022) and shares some thoughts at Monstrous Industry! “Country Gold starts out almost parodically with famous New Country singer Troyal Brux (Mickey Reece). Troyal Brux is a riff on Garth Brooks in the 1990s, down to Brooks’ signature color-block shirts. […]
At Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins share their favorite films! “In this episode, we discuss each of our number one favorite Hindi film! Even though they’re very different films—different eras, different types of directors, though one cast member in common!—we find fascinating […]
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