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PROBLEMISTA

March 25, 2024 By 1 Comment

PROBLEMISTA

There is so much to admire about Julio Torres’s PROBLEMISTA, from its magnificent manifestations of metaphor to its tweaking of subjective norms and random exploitation in a provocative satire as dark as night, but as hopeful as a buoyant full moon. The one that reigns supreme, though, is what Torres has done with the desperate,… Read More »

Tagged With: Art world, El Salvador, exploitation, FileMaker Pro, immigration, Karl Marx, New York City, obstacles, satire, Technicolor nighmare, tension and intrigue, work visa

INFINITY POOL

January 29, 2023 By Leave a Comment

INFINITY POOL

    With INFINITY POOL Brandon Cronenberg continues his father’s great tradition of unsettling images and quasi-familiar realities. He diverges in that, for all the normalization of the disquieting, in that he fails to evince the same undertone impish glee at the macabre so evident in even the elder Mr. Cronenberg’s darkest works. Still, he… Read More »

Tagged With: corruption, execution, exploitation, foreign country, orgy, strobe, tourism

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

December 25, 2022 By 2 Comments

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

And so, after a gap of over 13 years, James Cameron returns us to Pandora with an introduction that posits the most dangerous thing about that locale is that you may come to love her too much. Cameron is quite obviously smitten with his mythical planet whose inhabitants, the 8-foot-tall Na’avi, are more in tune… Read More »

Tagged With: clones, colonization, Darwinian evolution, exploitation, Forest People, Reef People, sequel, sky people

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (El abrazo de la serpiente) — Ciro Guerra Interview

February 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (El abrazo de la serpiente) — Ciro Guerra Interview

I didn’t have the best phone connection with Ciro Guerra when we spoke on February 6, 2016, but that didn’t affect the quality of what he had to say about his sublime and savage film, EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT. We started with why he chose black and white rather than color for his film set… Read More »

Tagged With: Amazon, black and white cinematography, disappearing culture, European explorer, exploitation, indigenous people, Ocaino people

THE GREEN INFERNO

September 21, 2015 By Leave a Comment

THE GREEN INFERNO

With an Eli Roth film, one should know what one is getting into, as in, an unspeakably unsettling film that will feature violence, gore, and a side of human nature that does not show the species off to its best advantage.

Tagged With: Amazon, Amazonian tribe, cannibalism, corruption, Eli Roth, exploitation, homage, horror, South American

Joel Schumacher’s PHONE BOOTH

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Joel Schumacher’s PHONE BOOTH

Joel Schumacher knows how to put on a show. Whether it be a full-blown flight of fantasy such as BATMAN AND ROBIN or the more confined space of PHONE BOOTH, in which we spend almost 90 minutes trapped in one with Colin Farrell. Schumacher may not always avoid kitsch, but he’s rarely boring. The same is… Read More »

Tagged With: Colin Farrell, director, exploitation, film pulled in wake of sniper shootings, filming in a phone booth, Joel Schumacher, media, media spin, mystery, narrative, phantom of the opera, shirt color, thriller, voice casting. drama

Eric Schlosser Visits Our FAST FOOD NATION

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Eric Schlosser Visits Our FAST FOOD NATION

Eric Schlosser’s non-fiction book, “Fast Food Nation”  on which the feature film is based pulled no punches when it came to detailing exactly how a cow becomes a hamburger. The film is the same way. Why the actual workings of a slaughter house are included was just one of the many questions I had for this soft-spoken but… Read More »

Tagged With: animal rights activitsts, book to screen, exploitation, food industry, immigration, meat-packing, slaughter house

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