The second, and later film from Jane Campion, In The Cut is not quite as “critically acclaimed,” as they say, but it should be. At least, it should be given…
Two from Jane Campion, in order from older to not-as-old. The Piano is one of those films that peppers syllabi throughout film studies courses, functioning as it does as a…
It turns out that any consideration of Volver is somewhat lacking without having seen Pedro Almodóvar’s earlier film The Flower of My Secret. Marsha Kinder’s review in Film Quarterly (Spring…
Cindy Sherman’s only film (so far) came after years of notorious photography, most notably the Untitled Film Stills series. She is both the photographer and the photographed, the subject and…
Feminists have almost as bad a rapport as male chauvinists, and not always without reason. But when you’re accustomed to seeing “regular” movies and then see something like Peter Greenaway’s…
Precious Bodily Fluids 