Originally a project designed for Paul Newman, Bobby Deerfield went into creative turnaround when the blue-eyed star lost interest in the project, after which director Sidney Pollack approached Al Pacino, still glowing from the critical successes Dog Day Afternoon and The Godfather: Part II…
Review of the little-known Finnish horror-drama The White Reindeer / Valkoinen peura (1952), directed by Erik Blomberg and co-written with actress Mirjami Kuosmanen.
Erik Blomberg’s eerie little film is part folk horror story, moral lesson, and a remarkable evocation of an expressionistic silent classic, with its reliance on striking B&W cinematography and music to hammer home the story of a woman who wants her husband to pay more attention to her instead of the reindeer herd…
Podcast interview director and veteran editor Victor Kanesfky on the art of editing, spanning Art Bastard (2016), his recent documentary on artist Robert Cenedella, and editing the classic indie horror Ganja & Hess (1976) + graffiti doc Style Wars (1983).
Over the past 23 years, Style Wars has become a revered, if not the definitive documentary on modern urban graffiti, and while graffiti – in image or word form – has been around for thousands of years, its impact on pop culture has never been more potent…
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