Issue 62: Body Archives | Bright Wall/Dark Room

Debbie Harry and James Woods in VIDEODROME (1983) | Universal Pictures

The moment I always return to isn’t one of Videodrome’s spectacular set pieces, but it is what I consider the film’s Cronenberg turn: the instant you understand that that’s what you’re watching, where the film admits its appetite for what bodies can stand and do. Read More

Exquisite Corpse

Merritt Mecham·

Issue 62: Body

Through a combination of live-action and stop-motion, Jan Švankmajer’s Alice leans into the unsettling nature of assemblage. Read More

Mark Hamill in STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (2015) | Walt Disney Studios

I Was So Much Older Then: Aging on Screen in Star Wars, The Before Trilogy, The Up Series, and the Films of Harold Lloyd

Graham W. Osborne·

Issue 62: Body

As film is primarily a visual artform, a film series presents us with the most in-depth way to view and examine the aging process in art. Read More

Why Would You Need To Guard A Dead Man Stuck In A Two-Foot Refrigerator?

Ciara Moloney·

Issue 62: Body

On slapstick, body horror, and Weekend at Bernie’s II. Read More

De Palma Does Hollywood

Travis Woods·

Issue 62: Body

Body Double is a dizzyingly perverse, pastel-hued celebration of cinematic pastiche and formalist trickery. Read More

Kirsten Dunst in THE VIRGIN SUICIDES (1999) | Brianna Ashby

Woman is the Loneliest Creature: Growing up with The Virgin Suicides

Hannah Woodhead·

Issue 62: Body

Two years into my struggle with mental illness, I discovered The Virgin Suicides. While a team of psychiatrists struggled to diagnose me, and my school struggled to teach me, a movie was helping me make sense of my mind. Read More

Julianne Moore in Todd Haynes' SAFE (1995)

On the Side of the Disease and Not the Cure

Joel Blackledge·

Issue 62: Body

By looking at illness for what it is in Todd Haynes' Safe, we begin to uncover the true terror of this masterpiece. Read More

George Washington (David Gordon Green, 2000) | art by Tony Stella

God’s Mistakes

Fletcher Powell·

Issue 62: Body

In George Washington, David Gordon Green uses time the way a painter might use negative space—he shapes our understanding of what we’re seeing, not through a series of plot points, but by giving us moments that, taken alone, seem random or incidental. Read More

Sigourney Weaver in ALIEN 3 | artwork by Tony Stella

Women, Aliens, and Dangerous Things: Female Bodies in Alien 3

Sarah Welch-Larson·

Issue 62: Body

More than any other Alien movie, David Fincher's Alien 3 is aware of Ripley’s existence as a woman, and the unique and universal horrors that come with the territory of inhabiting a woman’s body. Read More

Southern Fried Daredevil

Nathan Smith·

Issue 62: Body

Johnny Knoxville’s presence as a star has a lot to do with the desire of young men to test their bodies—not in rituals that prove their manhood, but in experiments that question its elasticity, its dexterity, its fluidity. Read More