Recent viewing, part 1

Since reading Chris Fujiwara’s book about Jacques Tourneur, The Cinema of Nightfall (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 1998), I’ve been searching out films by the director, particularly ones unconnected with the genres he’s best known for, horror and noir. I recently got hold of a cheap VCI disk featuring a double bill of […]

Blasts from the past

Recent viewing, part 1

Plumbing the depths of pulp

Room 237: an obsessive search for meaning
in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining

He was still alive? Bert I. Gordon 1922-2023

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