actor profiles

animation

book reviews

director profiles

documentaries

experimental &
avant garde


exploitation

film festivals

film noir

film reviews

gay & lesbian

hong kong films

horror

interviews

japanese cinema

music & musicals

silent film

tranny cinema
 
- - - - - -
To be automatically notified when the next issue is posted, join our mailing list.

writers gone wild!
Keep up with Bright Lights between issues by visiting our companion blog, Bright Lights After Dark.

 

home | current issue | archives | search | about us | contact | donate | blog | links

C. Jerry Kutner

C. Jerry Kutner is a frequent contributor to Bright Lights Film Journal. Visit his website at home.earthlink.net/~cjk5.

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

Follow us on:

blog advertising is good for you

blog advertising is good for you

 


New book from the
editor and writers of
Bright Lights Film Journal

Action! Interviews with Directors
from Classical Hollywood to
Contemporary Iran

(Anthem Art and Culture),
by Gary Morris (Editor),
Bert Cardullo (Introduction),
Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword).
London and New York:
Anthem Press, 2009.

"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com

Interviews
Robert Bresson
Roger Corman (with Bruce Dern
  and David Carradine)
Allan Dwan
Clint Eastwood
Douglas Sirk
Robert Wise
Mania Akbari
Lars von Trier
Michael Haneke
Allie Light
Melvin and Mario van Peebles
Otto Muehl
The Brothers Quay
Barbara Kopple
Federico Fellini
Abbas Kiarostami
François Truffaut
Caveh Zahedi
Peter Bogdanovich and
  Joseph McBride
  on Orson Welles

Order now at Amazon.