Category Archives: Theater Fantastique

Metropolis (1927)

Posted on November 12, 2017 at 10:31 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

Even in its near-complete 2010 restoration and running 150 minutes, Fritz Lang’s Silent epic Metropolis (1927) is possessed of churning, frenetic energy, like an industrial works geared to explode. It is a machine; a machine movie about other machines. And it’s … Continue reading →

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Stalker (1979)

Posted on October 6, 2017 at 1:13 pm by Jeff Kuykendall

The Zone, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979), is a region affected by a fallen meteorite in ways that are left deliberately undefined. It is an otherworld, a displaced and eerily altered stretch of swamp and forest and derelict buildings and … Continue reading →

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Escape from New York (1981)

Posted on September 10, 2017 at 11:01 am by Jeff Kuykendall

Escape from New York (1981) is squeezed tightly into the middle of John Carpenter’s career hot streak, when he was releasing at least one film a year. Halloween (1978) was a runaway horror smash, but Escape from New York was the sleeper … Continue reading →

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