ALEX COX: THE RETURN OF WALKER
British filmmaker Alex Cox made his name with Sid and Nancy and cult-fave Repo Man. However, his epic...
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FILMMAKER GUS VAN SANT ‘NEVER LEFT THE BEAT INFLUENCE’
As an aspiring teenage artist, Gus Van Sant had his head turned by the writing of Jack Kerouac...
TOM ROBINSON: STILL ON THE MOTORWAY TO A BETTER WORLD
Hidden in plain sight during the Punk heyday, a subset of musicians were singing about, and working toward,...
ROBERT DOWNEY SR.: FAREWELL TO AN UNDERGROUND FILM LEGEND
When Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope was released in 1969, America didn’t know what hit her. A surrealistic...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY: A NEW YORK CITY PORTRAIT
Midnight Cowboy (1969) is the only X-rated movie to win the Best Picture Oscar. Now considered an American...
‘LUSTFUL AND PERVERTED DESIRES’: THE OZ TRIAL, LONDON, 1971
Jim Anderson was one of three editors on trial for publishing OZ magazine, the now legendary psychedelic underground...
MANK: THE MAN WHO CREATED CITIZEN KANE
A new Netflix film, Mank, directed by David Fincher, focuses attention on the career of Herman J. Mankiewicz....
NOBODY SPEAKS: GARY FARMER ON JIM JARMUSCH’S ‘DEAD MAN’
Canadian-born, Native American actor Gary Farmer served as the moral conscience and spiritual center of Jim Jarmusch’s film...
BLOOD NOT SO SIMPLE: CHARLES HARRELSON, WOODY’S DAD
Charles Harrelson, father of the actor Woody Harrelson, was a card hustler, a self-proclaimed “hit man” and a...
MEDIUM COOL: HASKELL WEXLER’S HOT PROPHECY
The Oscar-winning cinematographer (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) Haskell Wexler turned his hand to film direction with Medium...
ESCAPE FROM VIETNAM: AN ISLAND OF PEACE IN THE MIDDLE OF A COMBAT ZONE
At the height of the Vietnam War, a renegade monk created a haven for peace on an island...
DENNIS HOPPER’S BLUE PERIOD: THE MAKING OF OUT OF THE BLUE (1980)
Dennis Hopper followed the success of Easy Rider (1969), which he directed and claims to have co-written, with...
PETER TOWNSHEND, KEN RUSSELL & TOMMY THE MOVIE 45 YEARS LATER
The Who’s 1969 double-album Tommy is generally considered the first ‘rock opera’ (cases could, of course, be made...