Fire Walk With Me: A Lynchian Masterpiece
Needless to say, this article contains spoilers for the Twin Peaks TV series as well as the film. When Twin Peaks ended in 1991, it went out on 50 of the strangest, most wonderfully obtuse minutes of...
A Look Inside Mulholland Drive’s Troubling Heart of Darkness
Mulholland Drive (2001) has been lauded across the board since its release 15 years ago. It was even voted the best film of the 21st century so far in a much-publicised BBC Culture poll of 2016. Indeed, the...
Matteo Garrone and 7 Other Directors Who Didn’t Play It Safe
For many, Matteo Garrone’s 2008 Neapolitan crime epic Gommorah ranks alongside Fernando Meirelles’ City of God and Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet as a great modern example of the gangster genre. The gritty...
Best Films Never Made #29: David Lynch/David Cronenberg’s Return of the Jedi
When George Lucas was on the hunt for someone to bring the much anticipated Return of the Jedi to life in the early 1980s, he thought of two young directors that were laying the foundations of their...
CEL Mates: It’s Such a Beautiful Day
Consisting of three 20-minute animated shorts, animator Don Hertzfeldt’s 2012 masterpiece It’s Such a Beautiful Day packs more pathos and melancholy into its one-hour tale of a stick man than most films...
Second Chance: Drop Dead Fred
"I call you 'Snotface' because I love you, and I love you because guys always love the crazy chicks." - Drop Dead Fred Phoebe Cates (Gremlins) is Lizzie Cronin and she’s just lost her husband, her money,...