The Straight Shooter: Reassessing David Lynch’s The Straight Story Salvador Carrasco May 2025 Feature Articles In its obituary for the sui generis director David Lynch (1946-2025), who recently gave up the ghost, The New York Times barely mentioned The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999), a film that is more often than n...
Anatomy of a Breakup or Her Life to Fix: The Worst Person in the World Salvador Carrasco October 2022 Feature Articles Among the thousands of books that have been written trying to elucidate Hitler, there is a remarkable one by Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil, that by the end of its comp...
Luis Buñuel’s El in the Face of Cultural Appropriation and the #MeToo Movement: A Filmmaker’s Reappraisal Salvador Carrasco May 2021 Feature Articles To my daughter Cassandra Before the first consumer-grade videotapes came out in the mid-1970s, it stands to reason that movies were not that readily available for the general public. If you were a well-estab...
Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea Salvador Carrasco October 2020 Feature Articles Recently I saw what will most likely be my favourite film of the past year and foreseeable future, especially in light of the pandemic: The Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul, 2019), from the Czech Republic. I made a...
Being There Without Being There in the Era of COVID-19: A Filmmaker’s Perspective Salvador Carrasco July 2020 Feature Articles Under the current restrictions of lockdown and quarantine, in which we are being asked not to leave our homes, “hands-on filmmaking” has become virtually impossible, at least in the sense of a group of people c...
