Video: Quentin Tarantino on Point Blank and The Outfit

Just over a year ago, Quentin Tarantino published a book entitled Cinema Speculation. The publisher notes that the book is “[o]rganized around key American films from the 1970s,” and describes it as “film criticism, film theory, a feat of reporting, and wonderful personal history.” I haven’t read it yet, although I probably will at […]

Review: Impossibly Funky: A Cashiers du Cinemart Collection, edited by Mike White

Cashiers du Cinemart was my favorite magazine during its existence, and I devoured every issue I could get my hands on. Its pretension-bursting title was clever enough, but its contents were the real reward–each issue was packed cover-to-cover with a wild array of film-geek topics that for the most part lined up quite nicely […]