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C. Jerry Kutner
in issue 64
Opposition Compositions: Treasures IV: American Avant Garde Film 1947-1986 on DVD — "Avant garde filmmaking has been defined almost entirely in opposition to the Hollywood mainstream."
in issue 58
Imagine a Man in a Box: Berlin Alexanderplatz on DVD — "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree."
in issue 55
Welcome to the Modern World: Program Notes for a Michelangelo Antonioni-
Jack Arnold Film Festival — "As much as the landscape is a character in It Came From Outer Space, it dominates Antonioni's L'Avventura . . ."
in issue 54
Who Owns Norman Bates? On Psycho IV, III, II, I, and More — "Look at yourself," she says, "that's not who you are anymore."
Beyond the Golden Age: Film Noir Since the 'Fifties — "There is Only Noir!"
in issue 32
Decadence AIP Style: De Sade
"No actual fucking!" as Mr. Kutner says, but there are plenty of other pleasures in this lurid '60s rarity whose authorship remains contested
Good Dog, Bad Dog: The Horror of Disney's Old Yeller
"Yeller, you've been so good to the family but you're sick now so we're gonna blow your damn brains out!"
in issue 27
Bernard Herrmann's "The Twilight Zone" on CD
Serling's groundbreaking series was also a warm haven for Hollywood's greatest composer
in issue 20
Albert Zugsmith's Opium Dreams
Can one man's brain contain Written on the Wind, The Incredible Shrinking Man, LSD, I Hate You!, and Confessions of an Opium Eater? If the man is Albert Zugsmith it could.
in issue 18
Combat Autopsy: The Naked and the Dead
Raoul Walsh's powerful 1958 film about World War II
