Category: Articles

  • Paul Morrissey: Flesh, Trash, Heat and the Undead

    Paul Morrissey: Flesh, Trash, Heat and the Undead

    “Don’t say “Warhol films” when you talk about my films! Are you so stupid, you talk to people like that? I have to live through this for fifty years. Everything I did, it’s Warhol this, or he did them with me. Forget it. He was incompetent, anorexic, illiterate, autistic, Asperger’s — he never did a thing in…

  • Opera vs. Cinema: It’s not a Remake, it’s Reimagined

    Opera vs. Cinema: It’s not a Remake, it’s Reimagined

    It was Milos Forman’s Amadeus (1984) that introduced me to classical music. The film is like an appetiser, offering its audience a small taste of Mozart’s operas – a sliver of music and costumed spectacle that leaves you hungry for more. The last third of Foreman’s film is deeply intertwined with the opera “Don Giovanni”…

  • Don’t Look Back: Five Classic Wall-Breaking Endings

    Don’t Look Back: Five Classic Wall-Breaking Endings

    It’s not uncommon for characters to break the fourth wall in film. It’s usually implemented as a narrative technique and used throughout a work, most famously in Annie Hall (1977), Funny Games (1999), Netflix’s House of Cards (2013) and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986). These common uses seek to involve the audience more closely with…

  • The Wrongs of Protocol: Movie Screenings and the Right to Complain

    The Wrongs of Protocol: Movie Screenings and the Right to Complain

    I talk at the movies. I also grumble, murmur, whisper, chuckle, snort, roll my eyes and shake my head. Muttering under my breath isn’t out of the question, either, nor is sighing so loudly that anyone within three rows of me can hear it. The good news is a flick’s got to be bad enough…

  • Game of Thrones: The Responsibilities of Female Representation

    Game of Thrones: The Responsibilities of Female Representation

    Last week I read a fiery debate on the Swedish website Moviezine regarding how women are represented in the TV-series, Game of Thrones. The debate was mainly between two members of the website and touched on topics of gender equality, something which also served to lay bare how the concept is often perceived. It was…