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THE CARD COUNTER

December 23, 2021 By Leave a Comment

THE CARD COUNTER

With THE CARD COUNTER, writer/director Paul Schraeder returns to his favorite themes of sin and redemption. This is no tidy tale of a fall from grace precipated by a rash decision or a moment of weakness. We have at the center a flawed man with dark impulses that he cannot control once they have been… Read More »

Tagged With: Abu Ghraib, gambling, Las Vegas, metaphor, poker, vengeance

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

December 15, 2021 By Leave a Comment

NIGHTMARE ALLEY

Flames are never far from Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), starting with those lapping near, but not too near, his heels as he exits the house that he’s just set alight over the body he’s deposited beneath the floorboards. In Guillermo del Toro’s oneiric vision of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel, NIGHTMARE ALLEY. Notice, too, the… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a novel, carnival, con artist, mentalist, metaphor, mind reader

THE HUNT

March 22, 2020 By Leave a Comment

THE HUNT

No one is spared in Nick Cuse and Damon Lindelof’s THE HUNT, nor, as, will be revealed by the end, should they be. Our intrepid filmmakers have eschewed taking sides in the current political morass, instead opting for a more challenging take on the foibles of human nature itself. A bold move guaranteed to raise… Read More »

Tagged With: black comedy, metaphor, political correctness, satire

THE SOUNDING — Catherine Eaton and Teddy Sears Interview

March 18, 2017 By Leave a Comment

THE SOUNDING — Catherine Eaton and Teddy Sears Interview

I sometimes warn the people I’m interviewing that I have a tendency to read way too much into things. When I did that before starting my phone conversation with Catherine Easton and Teddy Sears on March 3, 2017 about their film, THE SOUNDING, they both assured me that everything I read into the film was… Read More »

Tagged With: definition of mental disorder, indie filmmaking, metaphor, Oliver Sacks, otherness, Shakespeare, sound design, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, woman’s voice

Mitchell Lichtenstein Sharpens His TEETH

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Mitchell Lichtenstein Sharpens His TEETH

If there is any truth to the old saying that any publicity is good publicity, Mitchell Lichtenstein is on to something with his feature film debut, TEETH. The writer/director and erstwhile actor decided to go beyond the metaphor of the vagina dentata, and deal directly with that myth, the one that has haunted men though… Read More »

Tagged With: castration, cinema, director, fantasy, feature film debut, film, folklore, gender attitudtes, metaphor, Mitchell Lichetenstein, movie, narrative, nightmare, TEETH, vagina dentata, writer

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