Paths to Gory
Human Centipede 3 is interpretive chum as catharsis
Nostalgia for the Future
Images of Palestine circulate globally as long as they don’t picture return
The Real Image
For someone with schizoaffective disorder, blockbuster films can be far too realistic
Beyond MLK
Selma depicts Martin Luther King as a hard-headed radical at odds with LBJ by 1964, but his radicalism only came later, after Ella Baker, the SNCC and the movement pulled him forward.
The End of the World as We Know It
Ancient Apocalypse films use the past to project a reactionary present into the future
Hopper on Art, Commerce, Death & Legacy
Andy Warhol, Dennis Hopper, (1971) Anticipating the premier of Hopper's follow-up to Easy Rider, The Last Movie (1971), James Stevenson profiled the young director in…