In Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell’s documentary feature DIRECT ACTION, the viewer is dropped into the Notre-Dame-des-Landes commune, one of the most controversial ZAD (Zone à Défendre, or Zone to ...
“This one line of dialogue goes on for about the last 23 minutes of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (aka ’Saw 1),” says Tobe Hooper, who directed it. “It covers the infamous, excruciating Dinner Table ...
One imagines James Baldwin would have had none of that. In his most sustained commentary on cinema, the 1976 book-length essay The Devil Finds Work, he gives voice to the suspicion and anger that many ...