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  • Nowhere

    Nowhere 1997

    Watched 24 Sep 2024

    No Fucks Given by Nathan Lee

    In 1992, critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich reported in the Village Voice on an emerging sensibility that she termed “the New Queer Cinema.” Applied to the films of Todd Haynes, Derek Jarman, and Tom Kalin, among others, this label has stuck (though I prefer another rubric proposed in the article: “Homo Pomo”). Rich described these works as “breaking with older humanist approaches” and giving vent to a corresponding wildness of tone and form…

  • The Doom Generation

    The Doom Generation 1995

    Watched 24 Sep 2024

    No Fucks Given by Nathan Lee

    In 1992, critic and scholar B. Ruby Rich reported in the Village Voice on an emerging sensibility that she termed “the New Queer Cinema.” Applied to the films of Todd Haynes, Derek Jarman, and Tom Kalin, among others, this label has stuck (though I prefer another rubric proposed in the article: “Homo Pomo”). Rich described these works as “breaking with older humanist approaches” and giving vent to a corresponding wildness of tone and form…

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  • Red Desert

    Red Desert 1964

    Watched 21 Jun 2010

    In This World by Mark Le Fanu

    A new man is being born, fraught with all the fears and terrors and stammerings that are associated with a period of gestation. —Michelangelo Antonioni
    Red Desert came out in 1964, almost twenty years after the end of the war, by which time Italy had recovered from the devastation caused by that catastrophic event and was on the way toward modern prosperity; the years stretching from 1954 to 1964 were those of the…

  • Cure

    Cure 1997

    Watched 18 Oct 2022

    Erasure by Chris Fujiwara

    Films about serial killers often combine the police thriller with the horror film. In his tense and atmospheric Cure (1997), Kiyoshi Kurosawa deepens the implications of this hybrid genre. Discarding the reassurances typically associated with the police in such films, he widens the social, political, psychological, and metaphysical issues surrounding random violent death and, in so doing, brings out the full irony and ambiguity of his deceptively simple title.

    Born in 1955, Kurosawa belongs to the…

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