Ian Buckwalter

No doubt. As softcore star porn, it's wildly successful....

I outlined a lot of problems with the gender politics of this movie, but not one of them had anything to do with the nudity. I'm not sure where you got that idea. ...

Thanks for catching the typo. Fixed now. And yes, you're correct on that second point....

IFC does that with a lot of their acquisitions, making them available on demand or on their cable channel at the same time, or even in advance, of a theatrical run. This release is similar to their ha...

I think the difference in vision mostly comes down to the writer wanting to tell a story, and the filmmaker wanting to use the story as a framework to hang evocative visuals on. Which I think is fanta...

Sorry, I was magnifying my memories of the tensions between Clarke and Kubrick from a years-ago reading of Vincent LoBrutto's biography of the director. I did overstate it in implying that Clarke disl...

I love it when these folks come out with budget cuts that amount to a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the budget and want a cookie for doing the hard work of budget reform. We'll cut the NEA! W...

That's true. Rocky Horror plays every two weeks or so at E Street, and has been for a long time now, so I pretty much automatically ignore it for the purposes of this column, since most RHPS aficianad...

"Citadel"...

"Candy Says," by the Velvet Underground, is about her, too....

Washington Psychotronic Film Society is actually screening Top of the Heap on Tuesday night. How's that for a happy coincidence?...

AFI definitely does a great job with the retrospectives. I wish there weren't so many people with a weird mental block about going a few blocks over the Maryland border to see movies up there....

Their first retrospective will be a three film Godard series in December, featuring Breathless, Contempt, and the very rarely screened Made in U.S.A.. ...

E Street does beer and wine, but not liquor. And E Street's snack bar is pretty much just that: snacks. West End is looking to have substantial enough fare that you could pretty much do dinner and a m...

Yeah, that's a great site. I spent a good bit of time yesterday perusing the history of all the old Circle theaters. I probably should have linked to the site in this post. In fact, I think I'll recti...