Does Todd Haynes demystify the popular music artists he may otherwise mythologize? by Stuart Frazer Todd Haynes’ uses progressive fictional representation of musical artists for the basis of his films; From his unauthorised retelling of the life of Karen Carpenter with the use of Barbie dolls in Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (Todd Haynes. 1987. … Continue reading Todd Haynes & his musicians.
A Sapphic blue “I” appears on the screen cutting through the space of the background.
Shivers is one of Cronenberg’s first feature length horror films and from the start the director was dealing with very visceral and bloody body horror images as well as strong sexual violence
David Cronenberg’s films often seem on the surface to be rather simplistic gore or horror films, for example The Fly in which Seth Brundle’s monstrous half-fly, half-human body
I love a cover version, I don’t know why really, I have several playlists on Spotify endlessly listing, the good, the bad and the weird cover version their catalogue has to offer. So here is a list of cover versions featured in films, from strange reinterpretations to switching the language completely. It either has to add to the film or just be bloody good.
Punk Academia. 