Spring 2013: Volume 66, Number 3
FEATURES: Global Cinema And Contagion, Film Scholarship And The Cultural Politics Of The Dark Knight Franchise, Pedro Almodóvar’s Los Amantes Pasajeros (I’m So Excited), and more!
FEATURES: Global Cinema And Contagion, Film Scholarship And The Cultural Politics Of The Dark Knight Franchise, Pedro Almodóvar’s Los Amantes Pasajeros (I’m So Excited), and more!
FEATURES: An interview with David Cronenberg; essays on: fairytale films; timing and vulnerability in Hitchcock’s films, and Raffaello Matarazzo’s melodramas; plus discussions of A Dangerous Method, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and Carnage
The first time—in 1958, during the original release — was not happy. Though the vertigo shot made my head spin deliciously, it furnished my only thrill; the otherwise impenetrable yarn, by turns too slow-moving for my interest or too fast-paced for my understanding, had to be repeatedly explained to me by my mother afterward