Part 2: The Changing Face of Filmmaking

By PopMatters Staff

Every staid situation needs shaking up, none more so that the labored Hollywood studio system. The titles chosen for this section stand out as reasons why things had to change, the results of those seismic stylistic shifts. [19 June 2007]

Looking Back at Anger, or, We Always Have Paris

By Michael Barrett

Anger's films are suffused with the stuff of the Romantic Id: dream-logic, transgressive eroticism and taboo subjects, attention to color and music, literary references, religous and mythical elements, experimental editing and superimpositions. [2 November 2007]

The Films of Kenneth Anger, Vol. 1 (1947)

By Matt Mazur

Anger can be seen not only as the godfather of queer cinema, but also of indie cinema: his budgets were virtually non-existent, and the production values might have been low; but the finished products were always regarded as works of art. [5 March 2007]

Short Ends and Leader: And the Oscar Goes to…Roger Corman???