• Home
  • About
  • Issues
  • Podcast
  • Films
  • Contributors
  • Submissions
  • Subscribe
Random
  • Latest
  • Oldest
  • Random
  • A to Z

Issue 62: Body

August 2018

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

Biting Nails

Chelsea Hogue·
Issue 62: Body
On Nosferatu, Dracula, and the vampire story.
Read More

She’s Gone Where the Goblins Go: The Wizard of Oz at 80

Kelly Coyne·
Issue 62: Body
Though we continue to revere stories like The Wizard of Oz as folklore, 2018 demands that we revisit the canon—our cultural body of work—while reckoning with the entertainment industry’s brutal legacy of abuse.
Read More

Goon, Hockey Fandom, and My Bittersweet Love for Doug Glatt

Emma Koch·
Issue 62: Body
Goon is the rare sports film that loves it subject and is smart enough not to romanticize it.
Read More
Jonathan Silverman and Andrew McCarthy in WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S 2

Weekend at Bernie’s II: 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

Magnificent Obsessions: The Ear Piercing in Videodrome

Veronica Fitzpatrick·
Issue 62: Body
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
Hannah Gadsby in NANETTE | Netflix

The Female Body As Subject

Hope Rehak·
Issue 62: Body
A new crop of female auteurs is challenging The Male Gaze.
Read More

Southern Fried Daredevil

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

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

Hannah Strong·
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

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
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
Load More

Twitter

  • You’re Gonna Give Me Back My Spur: Undead Americana and the Myth of the West in Kathryn Bigelow's NEAR DARK… twitter.com/i/web/status/15590…

    About 5 hours ago

© Bright Wall/Dark Room, LLC 2022.
  • Twitter
  • Patreon
  • Letterboxd
  • Contributor Login
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • DMCA
  • Home
  • About
  • Issues
  • Podcast
  • Films
  • Contributors
  • Submissions
  • Subscribe
  • Home
  • About
  • Issues
  • Podcast
  • Films
  • Contributors
  • Submissions
  • Subscribe
Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close
See all results

We are using cookies to give you the best experience on our website.

You can find out more about which cookies we are using or switch them off in settings.

Powered by  GDPR Cookie Compliance
Privacy Overview

This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

Strictly Necessary Cookies

Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.

If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again.

Cookie Policy

This website uses Pico to reflect your current subscription status, as well as keep you logged in. Leaving this enabled will mean that you don't need to log in each time you access this website to unlock articles.

This website cookies from Jetpack, a site statistics platform provided by Wordpress. It lets us track traffic to different pages on the site, as well as other anonymous user data like geolocation, browsing habits and referral keywords. Leaving this enabled allows us to improve our website and tailor it to your preferences.