Tag Archives: CINEMA
David Lynch, Auteur Drawn to the Dark and the Dreamlike, Dies at 78
With such hallucinogenic masterworks as ‘Eraserhead,’ ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Mulholland Drive,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘The Elephant [...]
the Real-Life Inspirations for A Nightmare on Elm Street Are Even More Terrifying
The American horror revolution of the 1970s and ’80s brought a new strain of realism [...]
Why did everything look so crappy in the ’70s?
Because everything was pretty crappy in the ’70s. Ok, not everything was crappy, but a [...]
On this date in 1977, “Smokey and the Bandit” was released.
Hal Needham originally planned the Smokey and the Bandit as a low-budget B movie with [...]
Angela White Goes Faster
The incomparable Angela White channels her inner Tura Satana from ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’ in [...]
The rise and fall of Movie Gallery
Whenever people talk about old movie rental stores that everyone use to shop at, the [...]
‘Fantastic Planet’ at 50: Revisiting René Laloux’s Cult Classic
Simple yet complex, fantastical but real, savage and gentle — René Laloux’s award-winning films remain [...]
The Swinging Cheerleaders
Essentially a frosh/soph sex comedy, The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) represents outsider director Jack Hill at [...]
Remember the Jerry Lewis Cinema chain?
Cinemas have stirred the entrepreneurial spirit in want-to-be moguls and dreamers since the dawn of [...]
Lee Harrison’s Scanimate: The First Widely Applied Analog Computer Animation System
In 1962 Lee Harrison III built ANIMAC, a hybrid graphic animation computer. This was a [...]