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A Frequency: Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg on The Eternal Daughter
An interview with filmmaker Joanna Hogg and actor Tilda Swinton about their new film, The Eternal Daughter.
An interview with filmmaker Joanna Hogg and actor Tilda Swinton about their new film, The Eternal Daughter.
Glenn Kenny reports from the Venice Film Festival on this year's Biennale College and Classics section.
A report on our correspondent's first full day at Venice, including new films by Frederick Wiseman, Luca Guadagnino, and Paul Schrader.
Bill Ryan celebrates the nine horror films that Val Lewton produced for RKO between 1942 and 1946, like The Seventh Victim and Cat People.
The staff offers some shows and movies to fill the time while we're all stuck at home.
A dispatch by Glenn Kenny on three restored films that screened as part of the Venice Film Festival.
An in-depth preview on the classic noir films that will be playing at Chicago's Music Box Theater from Sept. 6-12.
The latest and greatest on Blu-ray, including Popstar, Neighbors 2, Captain America: Civil War, Blood Simple, Cat People and many more.
I made a wisecrack recently that, as far as I can tell, the zombies on AMC's "The Walking Dead" are metaphors for zombies. (Fortunately the show has the sense to hire guest stars like my friend Scott Wilson to add a human dimension to the endless splatter.) Another wise and talented friend, Kathleen Murphy, wrote something about the undying appeal -- and flesh-creeping significance -- of zombies a few years back that, unfortunately, can no longer be found on the web. But she was kind enough to send me the introduction ("It's alive!"), which I happily resurrect from the abyss for you here. Dig in:
Back to back, belly to belly I don't give a damn, I done dead already Oho back to back, belly to belly At the Zombie Jamboree
by Kathleen Murphy
In the hierarchy of horror movies, zombies usually come in dead last, behind glam monsters like vampires and demons, witches and werewolves. Ambulatory corpses are rarely pleasant to look at, and it's devilishly difficult to project personality through all that putrefaction, what with your fleshy bits constantly dropping off. Mostly zombies just shamble and chomp, activity that falls somewhat short of the meat-and-potatoes of high-class drama.
