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DAMSEL

July 11, 2018 By Leave a Comment

DAMSEL

This fiercely iconoclastic western uses many tropes from that cinematic genre, from the classics of John Ford to the more recent idioms of Sergio Leone, but the references are merely window dressing. Part comedy, part tragedy, part feminist manifesto, and all engrossing, it subverts expectations at every turn while delivering a film that refuses to be pigeonholed.

Tagged With: miniature horse, Native-American, preacher, true love, western

THE AMERICAN SIDE

July 12, 2016 By 2 Comments

THE AMERICAN SIDE

Click here to listen to the interview with filmmaker Jenna Ricker. Going over Niagara Falls in a barrel isn’t the most dangerous thing Charlie Paczynski (co-writer Greg Stuhr) faces in THE AMERICAN SIDE. Pasczynski is a low-rent private eye working the seamier side of Buffalo, New York, where Niagra falls and both honeymooners and suicides… Read More »

Tagged With: femme fatale, going over Niagara Falls in a barrell, Greg Stuhr, industrialist, intrigue, Jenna Ricker, neo-noir, NIagara Falls, Nikola Tesla, secret plans, Serbs, shadowy cabals

TOO LATE

April 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

TOO LATE

Kierkegaard, noted Existentialist and proto-Absurdist, once opined that life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.  As a cinematic exploration of the tragic and comedic implications of that, there is Dennis Hauck’s wistful neo-Noir, TOO LATE, a film that employs a strategic insouciance as it nimbly plays with the time/space continuum… Read More »

Tagged With: 20-minute continuous takes, Los Angeles, murder, mystery, neo-noir, private eye, stripper, thriller

AUTOMATA

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

AUTOMATA

AUTOMATA is a smooth jazz riff of a film noir that covers familiar territory with an intriguing twist, and a novel brand of hopeful melancholy. It’s a melancholy time, here in the near future as the sun slowly kills off what is left of humankind. It’s a time of huddled masses doubling-down in cities that… Read More »

Tagged With: Antonio Bandares, artificial intellitence, cinema, consciousness, dystopian future, Gabe Ibanez, movies, Robert Forster, robots, Sci-fi, Solar flares

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