Godspeed David Lynch
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog It was a Thursday night, and I had been learning a monologue in preparation for an audition tape I was to […]
Films
Whoredom, Harlots and Promiscuity in the 21st Century
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come […]
How Hollywood Ate The World
by Hazell Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog ‘Death to Hollywood’ – J.M. Keynes This is how John Trumpbour’s book, Selling Hollywood to the World, begins, and so it […]
Brett Morgen’s “Moonage Daydream”
by Hazel Anna Rogers for the Carl Kruse Blog It is that the world is saturated, without respite nor release. It is that the doors, while open where they once […]
The Notebooks of Pan’s Labyrinth
by Fraser Hibbitt for the Carl Kruse Blog The successive interweaving of the familiar and the fantastical marks Pan’s Labyrinth as a profound meditation on choice. Del Toro’s ‘dark fairytale’ […]
Variations of Beauty and the Beast
By Asia Leonardi “Amor vicit omnia”, “love triumphs over all”, even with the most monstrous appearances, is what the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast seems to invoke, a tale […]
Visit to Bavaria Filmstadt and Das Boot
By Carl Kruse Supposedly it’s difficult to make anti-war films because movies tend to make war look exciting. That’s probably true but not for Wolfang Petersen’s “DAS BOOT” (1981) one […]