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Nicole Veneto

Film Review: “Crimes of the Future” — Let Them Eat Microplastics

If you find David Cronenberg’s cinematic philosophy on bodily abjection/assimilation and the artistic process intellectually stimulating, then you’re in for an intoxicating return to form from the man whose name is synonymous with the body horror genre.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Crimes of the Future, David Croenberg, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, Nicole Veneto, Viggo Mortensen

Film Review: “Neptune Frost” – Power to the People

This Afrofuturist cyberpunk musical is a sprawling political manifesto poetically transcribed into a visual symphony of music and images.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Anisia Uzeyman, Neptune Frost, Nicole Veneto, Saul Williams

Film Commentary: “Inland Empire” — The Dreamer Who Dreams

David Lynch’s Inland Empire is a provocative challenge to filmmaking as a medium of visual storytelling that’s largely gone unmatched in the sixteen years since its initial release.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: David Lynch, Inland Empire, Nicole Veneto

Book Review: “The Poetics of Cruising” — Imaginative Acts of Capture

By exploring the historical and artistic significance of cruising throughout poetry, photography, and visual culture, the book produces a rich and exciting topography of queer culture that posits a reflexive relationship of vicarious cruising between “cruising texts” and their consumers.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured, Review Tagged: crusing, Derek Jarman, Jack Parlett, Nicole Veneto, queer visual culture, sex, The Poetics of Cruising, Todd Haynes, University of Minnesota Press

Film Reviews: A Not-So Short Dispatch on Short Films at the Boston Underground Film Festival

I’m happy to report that the local scene has lost none of its eccentricity thanks to a deluge of talented filmmakers and animators with a taste for the offbeat. Stay weird Boston!

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Austin Kimmell, Bliss, Boston Underground Film Festival, Joe Badon, Nicole Veneto, Put a Stick in It, Sarah Gold, Teenage Waterpolo, The Wheel of Heaven

Film Review: “X” – The Texas Grindhouse Massacre

X takes the right lessons from Chainsaw: it is both an adoring homage and a much needed rejuvenation of the slasher genre.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: King Kudi, Nicole Veneto, Ti west, X

Film Review: “The Spine of the Night” – The Rape of the Land

Recommending The Spine of the Night depends on how much you’d like to see things like head decapitations, eye-gouging, and people being disemboweled in your high-fantasy animated features, in which case Spine is everything you could hope for and a whole lot more.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Morgan Galen King, Nicole Veneto, Philip Gelatt, The Spine of the Night

Film Review: “Strawberry Mansion” — Strawberry Dreams Forever

Strawberry Mansion‘s biggest asset is that it employs so many different artistic techniques to create a world as wildly inventive as it is heart-achingly sincere.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Albert Birney, Kentucker Audley, Nicole Veneto, Strawberry Mansion

Film Review: “The Pink Cloud” — Love During Lockdown

The Pink Cloud is a fascinating watch by sheer virtue of its accidental prescience.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: COVID-19, Eduardo Mendonça, Iuli Gerbase, Nicole Veneto, Renata de Lélis, The Pink Cloud

Film Review: “Mad God” – God’s in His Heaven, All’s Forsaken With the World

Think Ray Harryhausen by way of the Quay brothers or Jan Švankmajer and you’ll have a vague sense of the sort of magnificent black magic that animatesMad God.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Mad God, Nicole Veneto, Phil Tippett

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