‘Symbiopsychotaxiplasm’: cinema’s most playful use of the moving image
A film unlike any other.
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The remarkable career of the great indie maverick Henry Jaglom
An outsider who never wanted to fit in.
Is ‘Smiley Face’ the best movie ever made about getting high?
A fondness for the herb isn’t obligatory.
Punching above its weight: how 1945’s ‘Detour’ changed independent cinema
Playing the big boys at their own game.
‘The Young Poisoners Handbook’: The murderer who inspired a black comedy
There was plenty of creative licence applied.
‘Just Another Girl on the I.R.T’: a pioneering yet forgotten coming-of-age 1990s classic
An unheralded pioneer.
‘High Art’: the LGBTQ+ romance Roger Ebert called “masterful”
An engrossing examination of a torrid affar.
The darkest corner of exploitation cinema: the wild and wacky world of Mondo films
Not for the faint of heart.
‘Jellyfish Eyes’: The weird Pokémon knock-off released by Criterion
Things didn’t end well for the sequel.
A gelatinous trailblazer: How ‘The Blob’ pioneered independent horror cinema
It’s doubtful that was the intention.