Assignment 8: Who’s Responsible?
Every week, we will be posting a prompt related to cinephilia, and some of our founding members will contribute a short response. Hopefully you, our dear readers, will feel compelled to respond in our comment section as well. This week’s prompt was:
What do you think about the auteur theory?
Although the auteur theory (the belief that [...]
THE THING (1982) is another fine notch on John Carpenter’s genre belt
Dir. John Carpenter
Alamo Village, 4/08/10, 10:15pm
Four years after making one of my favorite movies of all time, Halloween, John Carpenter remade The Thing from Another World, the Howard Hawks film from 1951 that is playing on the television in certain scenes from Halloween. Clearly, The Thing was a labor of love for Carpenter, remaking [...]
Introduction to THE APARTMENT (1960)
It’s New Year’s Eve, and I have been asked to introduce The Apartment at the Alamo Drafthouse special NYE celebration. Here is what I am aiming to say. Am I nervous? Eek!
Wilder was born in 1906 in Austria. He started his career as a journalist and moved to Berlin, where he [...]
