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In Theaters
Aug 25, 2016 — David Cronenberg’s chilling 1979 portrait of family dysfunction, in which a troubled woman undergoes a radical form of therapy at a remote institute, is showing in Huntington, New York.
Short Takes
Mar 15, 2016 — Today, we’re celebrating horror maestro David Cronenberg’s seventy-third birthday with a look back at his brilliantly twisted oeuvre.
Short Takes
Mar 10, 2016 — From its very earliest years, the cinema has offered a uniquely powerful tool for artists seeking to give new life to great works of literature. The creations of literary icons have served as the inspiration for some of film’s most...
Sep 8, 2015 — Brian De Palma magnifies the pleasures and perils of Hitchcock and toys with the viewer’s spectatorship in his sly and scary horror masterpiece.
Essays
Jul 15, 2014 — Among the brainiest of all horror movies, David Cronenberg’s film goes beyond shock to investigate a disturbing world of psychic mutation.
Sep 26, 2012 — Countercultural icons Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov makes square subversive in Bartel’s cult classic.
Apr 27, 2012 — Did You See This? • Go underground with Stanley Kubrick, circa 1946. • Catch up with Frau Blücher [sound of a horse whinnying] . . . • . . . and creepy Carrie White. • Lyons on Insdorf on Kaufman...
Apr 13, 2012 — Did You See This? • Can La haine save London from more riots? • You can’t kid a kidder, but you can scare a scarer. • (Why can’t every day be) Derek Jarman Day • A Cassavetes Tumblr • Edward...
May 8, 2011 — Performances In her performances, actress Shelley Duvall often seems as though she’s walking through a fog. Her gawky-elegant string-bean body moving as though on a conveyer belt, her perpetually goggling saucer eyes staring out at the world yet seeming to...
Essays
Apr 25, 2011 — Brian De Palma brought hip, freewheeling funkiness to the American film renaissance of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Wised-up, cinema-savvy audiences across the country knew to seek out his movies for their scruffy wit, showmanship, and aesthetic innovation, not...