1968
As a cinematic time capsule, A Woman Kills is worth (re)discovering… even if its most problematic aspects should be taken with a large grain of salt.
In this week’s installment of Horrific Inquiry, we take a look back at George A. Romero’s 1968 masterpiece, Night of the Living Dead.
From witches to Satan, Rosemary’s Baby has it all, and while it may not have aged as well as hoped, it is still a classic film that still influences.
Black Panthers shows the resistance group through the words of its own members and the curious eyes of a visitor.
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm stands in homage to the unanticipated and the experimental, unraveling the form of cinema and documentary.
Sergio Leone compiled everything great about Westerns in Once Upon a Time in the West, and created as distinctive an entry as the world had ever seen.
With a re-release on 70mm, we look back at the sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, which continues to astound after 50 years.
Frank Perry ’s 1968 film The Swimmer is adapted at length from the 12-page short story of the same name by famed American author John Cheever . It is the story of Ned Merrill (perhaps the finest performance of Burt Lancaster ’s impressive career), whose summer culminates in a trip through various neighbours’ pools until reaching his own home at the end of a large and affluent county of mansions. Only, what starts as a summer begins to feel as if it goes on for years.
Stanley Kubrick’s classic sci-fi epic, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a fictional transcendence of classic Greek mythos through the ubiquity of the motion picture camera. As the film’s title suggests, this is Greek philosopher Homer’s The Odyssey told on the grandest of scales and sparing no expense that 20th Century cinema had to offer.
