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***FRIDAY, JANUARY 9*** EL TOPO, Alejandro Jodorowsky IFC Center Jodorowsky’s legendary, notorious cult hit essentially created the genre of the midnight movie — a spectacle so stunning and bizarre that normal hours couldn’t contain it. Incorporating...

When did queer cinema begin? What did it look like before the German New Wave breakthroughs of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Ulrike Ottinger, before the flashpoint of William Friedkin’s Cruising, before its efflorescence in the ’90s? The popular understanding...

The past year has marked the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, and in the United States aficionados have observed the occasion as though the Master was a most beloved native son. The year-long celebration has demonstrated a distinctively...

In essay collections like The Disappointment Artist and The Ecstasy of Influence—the title is a good-natured rejoinder to the “agony of influence,” the critic Harold Bloom’s overheated Freudian notion that a writer defines himself through the Oedipal...

Unanimously Overturning Fraud at the Box Office The greatest boon to American political films came, oh, some four score and eight years ago, when movie studios brought forth a new gimmick for your night out on the town: sound, given that this particular...