Dueling Volcano Docs: The Fire Within vs. Fire of Love
In which we throw two documentaries into a fiery, erupting volcano that we may watch them fight it out.
Tag Archives: Werner Herzog
A Few Words on Eighth Grade and Realism
A movie so real it could only be a movie.
An Ode to the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Rend your rictus with screams of inchoate rage and explode my face with eldritch fire. I love you Stay Puft.
Klaus Kinski Is Insane
In which I plunge into the obscene depths of the most outrageous autobiography ever written.
Documenting Jungle Madness
In which Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey…, a new documentary on the making of The Island of Dr. Moreau, and other chronicles of mad jungle adventures are thunk upon.
Red Army: A Doc About Soviet Hockey, And Much More Besides
The Soviet Union was a strange place. Strange to anyone who didn’t live there, and, I’d have to expect, strange to those who did.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, So Be Careful
There’s what a film appears to be and what a film is, and seldom the twain shall meet, alone, at night, in Iran, with a vampire.
Europa Report And The Irreality Of Found Footage
Watching Europa Report, a found footage science fiction movie from 2013, I realized why it is I’ve never liked found footage movies: they’re fake.
Mind Control Double Feature #81: Burning The Midnight Oil
Of desperate men and burning landscapes, imagined and real.
Mind Control Double Feature #70: If It’s the Last Thing I Ever Do
You’re dying. In twenty years, or in six months, or on this coming Wednesday you’re going to die. Whichever it is; there’s no escape. So what are you doing with […]