January 14, 2005 Those who know "The City" fairly well know that San Francisco's Tenderloin district can be a pretty dicey place to live. For some whites, it’s even a frightening place to walk through. The knowing looks—or silly middle class expressions of sympathy—
10 May 2005 'What fresh hell is this?' --Dorothy Parker This thing is a vision of hell. It's an honest film – a shard of a shattered place. And yet, although it is strewn, it is interpretable. It could be rather more clear than many imagine. David
September 17th 2002 There are probably three typical reactions to Stanley Kubrick's 1980 fling with modern horror, The Shining. Variously, it's considered a cinematically interesting and suspenseful film or it's "cheesy" and "overdone;" those who dig a little deeper discern
April 28th 2005 As the train rolled through the hills and hamlets of Bohemia south of Prague, a cheapo-vino-enhanced realization came to. The scene: a rolling patchwork of emerald pines, superimposed randomly upon fields of freshly stacked golden hay, and ramshackle farms, through which babbling rivulets meandered. It
A little over three years ago, I first had the pleasure of stumbling upon "Frontier Days" in Willits, California. A burg of 5,000 astride Highway 101, some 180 miles north of San Francisco, this sleepy ranching and agricultural community rightly bills itself the 'Gateway to the
["Herr Klamm, was said by Jeremiah to have related unusually disconcerting sentiments one morning before dawn. Initially relayed by messanger, the wax sealed letters were coherent if imperious dispatches addressed to Barnabas. Soon enough Herr Klamm’s reports came in the form of dashed off notes scribbled in black
In Fritz Lang's masterpiece 'The Testament of Dr. Mabuse', a 'mastermind' with enormous psychological reach, directs a gang of criminals to conduct acts of random harm, in order to terrorize the German public into subitting to his will. It was released in late 1932.
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