Philippe Mora double post: THE BEAST WITHIN (1982) and MAD DOG MORGAN (1976)
This past week, we were lucky enough to have been visited by directer Philippe Mora, who’s Howling 2 pleased both a Terror Thursday and Terror Tuesday audience. Mora is a hilarious storyteller, and the comments he made on the Ritz stage had both Tuesday and Wednesday night crowds in stitches. Zack and [...]
I hope I don’t have to stay on TERMINAL ISLAND (1973)
Dir. Stephanie Rothman
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 2/17/10, 11:59pm
Stephanie Rothman is a lady director of exploitation. I don’t care for her as much as I do for the first lady of sex films, Doris Wishman, but I am beginning to see some value in her work. Of her seven film oeuvre, I have seen but [...]
Herzog is two for two with MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE (2009)
Dir. Werner Herzog
IFC Center (New York, NY), 12/20/09, 5:45pm
I went into this film pretty blind and I was so pleased. This is a magnificent film, and Herzog, after his magnificent The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans, is certainly on fire. Both pictures of his double-whammy are in the top films [...]
