Trailers from Hell: The Savage Eye!
At Trailers from Hell, Kier-La Janisse talks about The Savage Eye (1959)! Watch here.
Tamiya Iemon is the Worst: Ghost Stories of Yotsuya
Tamiya Iemon is the absolute worst. I have seen multiple adaptations of Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, from Keisuke Kinoshita’s Shinshaku Yotsuya Kaidan / Yotsuya Kaidan Part 1 & Part II (1949) to Nobuo Nakagawa’s 1959 adaptation, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan / The Ghost Story of Yotsuya (1959) to Takashi Miike’s […]
Filmi Ladies: Ray of Sunshine Juhi Chawla!
At the Filmi Ladies Podcast, Pitu Sultan and the Gutter’s own Beth Watkins “It’s everyone’s favorite bolt of sunshine: Juhi Chawla! In talking about a range of her films – Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988), Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke (1993), Yes Boss (1997), and 3 Deewarein (2003) […]
Yukio Ninagawa’s Medea
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 […]
Interview with Billy Dee Williams!
At Bullseye, Jesse Thorn interviews the legendary Billy Dee Williams! Listen here.
Overlook 2024: Exhuma (South Korea, 2024)
This is Carol Borden’s last film of this year’s Overlook Film Festival–Exhuma (South Korea, 2024): The past is very present in writer/director Jang Jae-hyun’s Exhuma (South Korea, 2024). There is both familial and colonial history reaching back to World War II and then even further. Shaman Lee Hwa-rim […]
The Cultural Gutter 