The Descent (2005) A Film by Neil Marshall

In an essay about The Exorcist , Stephen of the blog Checking On My Sausages raises a notion he calls the "horror before the horror&qu...

Jeanne Dielman: Redefining Mulvey and Hill

(This is an essay I wrote for my Media Criticism and Theory class. Forgive the dryness.) One of the most intriguing and telling facets of Je...

Never Let Me Go (2010) A Film by Mark Romanek

I'm a firm believer in the idea that a film inspired by literature need not transcribe its source material religiously, that it can, and...

Kenneth Anger Shorts

The great, mysterious, and unexpectedly funny counter-cultural hero Kenneth Anger made a special appearance at the Harvard Film Archive a we...

Collateral (2004) A Film by Michael Mann

Michael Mann's Collateral is largely a compromised film, and for this it's all the more intriguing to excavate where Andrew Sarris&...

The Social Network (2010) A Film by David Fincher

Early trailers, with the particularly inspired addition of a choir version of Radiohead's "Creep", would have lead you to beli...

Hunger (2008) A Film by Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen's brutal, transcendent prison drama Hunger has to be one of the most impressive films to not win a Palme D'Or in the ...