Fox And His Friends (1975)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a filmmaker I was always curious about and his filmography lay there waiting for me to experience. I picked Fox And His Friends (1975; Faustrecht der Freiheit) as the first of his films to watch, mainly because I thought it was interesting that he also played the lead, the title role, […]

Duelle (1976)

Browsing through the library feature of Mubi, I stumbled across Duelle (1976; Duelle (une quarantaine), directed by Jacques Rivette, and I was drawn in by the plot summary describing a battle between the Daughter Of The Moon (Juliet Berto) and the Daughter Of The Sun (Bulle Ogier). A fantasy battle is embedded in noir styled […]

Mirror (1975)

Ten minutes into Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror (1975; Zerkalo or The Mirror), there’s a scene where a doctor (Anatoly Solonitsyn from Stalker) walks away from a conversation with a woman, Maria (Margarita Terekhova) he has met travelling through the countryside. As we see the back of him in the middle distance of a field, a wind […]

Go Go Tales (2007)

Abel Ferrara makes a comedy, Go Go Tales (2007), which is set in a go-go joint strip club, a project he’d always wanted to make, describing it as “Cheers meets The Killing Of A Chinese Bookie.” Much like Cassavettes’ film, Go Go Tales sees the strip club as a metaphor for filmmaking, for creative expression […]

The Driller Killer (1979)

Now I’m a horror fan but not necessarily a gore-hound, so generally The Driller Killer (1979) never really appealed to me. However, I am a fan of director Abel Ferrara and this was his first low budget narrative film, so I felt it was time as I’m trying to be a completist about his filmography. […]