Author Christopher Sharrett

It appears to me that there is still a tendency among reviewers and film scholars to regard Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final masterpiece, Salò o le 120 giornate de Sodoma (Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, 1975), as a...

Anthony Mann is among the key American filmmakers who brought a strong psychological note to the postwar genre film, beginning with very distinguished films noirs such as T-Men (1947), Raw Deal (1948), Side Str...

As I write this, the United States celebrates Patriot Day, the term used to commemorate the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, of 11 September 2001, usually rendered with the numerals “9/11”, giving the ev...

Michelangelo Antonioni’s name seems to have fallen somewhat into disrepute in US film culture over the last several decades, his main concerns – alienation and the collapse of communication – the subject of a c...

Heat (1995 USA 171 mins) Prod Co: Warner Bros./Regency Enterprises/Forward Pass/Monarchy Enterprises B.V. Prod: Pieter Jan Brugge, Art Linson, Michael Mann, Arnon Milchan, Kathleen Shea Dir, Scr: Michael...

The Seventh Continent/Der Siebente Kontinent (1989 Austria 104 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Veit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Anton Peschke Ed: Marie Homolkova Art Di...