It is time for independent genre films to cast away the pomp and precepts of 125 years of oppressive cinematic institutions and embrace their regional freedom! Popular cinema has calcified its expectations of what constitutes each of its genres and is unwilling to bend to truly subversive expressions of the norms. To be an utterly …
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The Kinship of Cronenberg
It’s hard to be a fan of horror in this country and not inevitably fall into a rabbit hole of appreciating – nay worshipping – the Baron of Blood, David Cronenberg. I’ve stood at many a midnight screening or all-night marathon wherein the conversation would casually veer onto the expressway of appreciating a small, but …
FILM 3610G - CINEMATIC PUBLICS & PARTICIPATIONS: MOVEMENTS, MANIFESTOS, FILM FESTIVALS, COLLECTIVES 