2004
32 pages tabloid-sized
1984: Who Killed Hollywood
Rob Craig’s epic-length rant is to date the most controversial thing printed in these pages. In this essay, 1984 is cited as the date that personal cinema in Hollywood died, citing examples of films released that year.
Other People’s Home Movies
The home movie aesthetic from the underground to the video age.
Once Upon a Short Time in the West
A rant about seeing imperfect or incomplete film prints in repertory cinemas.
Midnite Movies
Skot Deeming takes a look at Tetsuo the Ironman.
Print Film
A lot of summer reading! Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Limit What Movies We Can See, by Jonathan Rosenbaum; Cutting Edge: Art-Horror and the Horrific Avant-Garde, by Joan Hawkins; Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon, edited by Xavier Mendik & Steven Jay Schneider; The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Andy Milligan, by Jimmy McDonough; Sleazoid Express: A Mind Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square, by Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford; Mental Hygiene: Better Living Through Classroom Films 1945-1970, by Ken Smith; Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us To Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties, by Peter Biskind; The Films of the Fifties: The American State of Mind, by Andrew Dowdy
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