Film
Nancy Keefe Rhodes talks to one of America's most interesting independent filmmakers on the DVD release of his latest film - The Last Winter - an eco-horror parable on global warming. Larry Fessenden discusses his thoughts behind the film, his influences and the siren call of Hollywood. 
The heavy-lidded, lusty lipped drawl of Robert Mitchum is one of cinema's indelible memories. A non-conforminst, a natural performer and one of the finest and most engrossing screen actors to croon a line of dialogue, Laavanyan Ratnapalan looks back at a career of transient genius and a man of escapable charms. 
Nancy Keefe Rhodes interviews the New York City based film maker about her rule-breaking new film Plany Mela, screened at the 4th Syracuse International Film Festival. The experimental form, mixed with live performance, shows that there's an interesting future for the giant screen. 
For a work that has been lauded for its subversion of life in 1960s America, the technical aspects of its production affirm the merits of the society that it is held to subvert. A less flexible country and period would most likely not have permitted the creation of Night of the Living Dead. Laavanyan Ratnapalan reads Romero's classic in context. 
When the coke-dust settles and the bodies are swept from the battlefield, will Jonathon Demme’s exhilarating take on the Talking Heads’ Speaking in Tongues tour reign victorious? Or is it no match for the cultural zeitgeist of Martin Scorsese’s elegiac chronicle of The Band’s final performance? Only one way to find out…
There are a good many filmmakers from the 70s who were unable to drag themselves out of the decade intact, some unable to reach beyond a single success, some inexplicably out of luck or ideas, and many exploring the outskirts of the industry for the last three decades in a state of bemusement. The 70s may have been home to some of the most lucid, lurid and vociferous figures in the history of film but it was also a rickety platform for some of the most unsustainably enigmatic.
A lost movie is like a locked treasure chest: the tension and expectation over what's locked away is almost too much to take. From the many mislaid projects of Welles to the stange concentration camp comedy of Jerry Lewis, and from the butchered epic of von Stroheim to Gilliam's Ubik, FilmSlash delves deep into the murky waters of the lost movie and finds that, sometimes, they're best left buiroed under the sand. 
In recent years, a new kind of Western has been emerging, one that responds differently to the burgeoning, contemporary Wild Wests dotting the globe and challenges us to new perceptions about the Western genre and about our world. Nancy Keefe-Rhodes looks at The Proposition, Dust and "Deadwood".
Centred around two flawed heroes, two iconic and complex men of action, If and The Charge of the Light Brigade make compelling viweing. Released in the social and political tumult of 1968, these two classics of British cinema have much to say about the world into which they were released. Peter Delaunay explores these curiously complimentary bedfellows.
Often trashed for its cold and overly formal poise, Kubrick's movie inspires strong feeling both among its detractors and supporters. Read more to find out how our FilmSlashers interpret this beguiling and maddening epic.
