Absolutely incredible series in which a film location scout revisits the locations in Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976) and compares across time. This was the New York I remember from my childhood: so much more textured in many ways.

"Alien is a rape movie with male victims," explains David McIntee, author of the Alien study Beautiful Monsters. "It is a film that plays, very deliberately, with male fears of female reproduction."

Via Randy. In one or two places I'm not quite sure what point the author of this piece is trying to make - the language is oddly stilted - but I sure am grateful for the loving way in which these images have been assembled. (Especially those from films I've forgotten entirely, like "Saturn 3"!)

"A kind of designer jet lag." Lovely.

<strike>And these, if I'm not mistaken, would have been for a script penned by William Gibson.</strike> I'm mistaken.

larfs

Sometimes I love otaku.

OK, sure, why not? Via La Boyer.

Coming to Film Forum in October. We can't wait.

Via Jones. I think this is a very generous reading of a deeply problematic film (which, nonetheless, I've managed to see no fewer than three times in the two months it's been out)

In prep for the Peter Watkins Film Festival at Cinematheque Nurri

The first parkour procedural?