Author Ian Olney

Ian Olney

Ian Olney is a Professor of Film Studies at York College of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Zombie Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2017) and Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture (Indiana University Press, 2013), and co-editor, with Antonio Lázaro-Reboll, of The Films of Jess Franco (Wayne State University Press, 2018). His articles and essays on film have appeared in such journals as Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Film Studies, and such edited volumes as A Companion to the Horror Film (Wiley Blackwell, 2014) and Recovering 1940s Horror Cinema: Traces of a Lost Decade (Lexington Books, 2014).

“Wasn’t Born to Follow” / “The Weight” in Easy Rider (1969)

Ian Olney

October 2020

Pop Music in Film

Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), a herald of Hollywood’s ‘70s renaissance and lament for the death of the ‘60s counterculture, is a movie famously full of moments powered by popular music of the era. No doubt ...

Miyazaki’s Heroines

Dreams of Italy’s Past: Giuseppe Rotunno’s Cinematography in Amarcord and The Leopard

George Romero’s Zombie Movies: The Fragmentation of America

Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Akomfrah’s Handsworth Songs and McQueen’s Red, White and Blue

Baron Lands: Environmental Upheaval and the Texas Oil Movie

“Cinematic Comrades”: Bong Joon-ho’s Auteurism and Song Kang-ho’s Performance

Luis Buñuel’s El in the Face of Cultural Appropriation and the #MeToo Movement: A Filmmaker’s Reappraisal

Toronto 2000: A Film Festival Diary

Disenchantment of the World: IFFR 2021

IFFR 2021: High art, casual conversation

Rediscovering the Forgotten Gems of a Decade: Austrian Auteurs of the 1970s at the Viennale

Pandemic Dreams: The 71st Berlinale

Some Winners and Then Some: Sundance 2021

Forgotten Wars: The AFI FEST/AFM 2020 (Virtual Events)

Designs for Life: David Lynch by Justus Nieland

Time Machines: After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy, edited by Jeremi Szaniawski

The Politics of Ambiguity: After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition, by Kalling Heck

Revising a Concept: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, by Jonathan Walley

When Everything Seemed Possible: London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis

“Memories Are Made of This”: Juliane Lorenz and Lothar Schirmer’s R.W. Fassbinder: Film Stills, 1966-1982

Beneath the Tuxedo Elegance: Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy

Losing Your Head – Lucrecia Martel and The Headless Woman

Uta onna oboegaki (Notes of an Itinerant Performer, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1941)

I Kiss Your Hand, Madame (Robert Land, 1929)

Shimizu Redivivus: Nakinureta haru no onna yo (A Woman Crying in Spring, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933)

Pit Stop: Billy Wilder’s Mauvaise graine (1934)

“This is You, You Bastards”: Ace in the Hole (1951)

The Major and The Minor (Billy Wilder, 1942)

McCarey, Leo

Obayashi, Nobuhiko

Lee, Spike

Lumet, Sidney

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

“Wasn’t Born to Follow” / “The Weight” in Easy Rider (1969)