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Gordon Thomas

Gordon Thomas, trained as a painter, is a photographer living in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with his wife. Film has fascinated and worried him ever since, as a small child, he saw Godzilla in 1954.

in issue 60

Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Harry Langdon: Lost and Found, Postwar Kurosawa, I Am Cuba, The Dragon Painter, The Wrath of the Gods, Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases

Dream Documents of Civil War: Three Films by Miklós Jancsó — "Jancsó's controlled aesthetic acts as a dissonance that vibrates expressively with scenes of violence, torture, and shame."

in issue 59

Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Our Hitler, Sawdust and Tinsel, Black Sun, Marketa Lazarova, Battleship Potemkin, Nosferatu, Automatons — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases

Peter Watkins and the Politics of Expression: On Edvard Munch (1974) and The Freethinker (1994) — "Watkins' filmmaking bravely seeks an insistence on personal truth — his own and the viewer's."

in issue 58

Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: The Valentino Collection (The Young Rajah, Moran of the Lady Letty, Stolen Moments, Society Sensation), True Heart Susie, She, The Call of Cthulhu, El Bruto — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases

Will the Shark Bite? G. W. Pabst and The Threepenny Opera — "Macheath: I'm not asking you to put on an opera." — Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera, Act 1, scene 2

in issue 57

Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Romeo, Juliet and Darkness; The Party and the Guests; Woman Is the Future of Man; Sansho the Bailiff; Old Joy; The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg; 20 Fingers; Electric Edwardians — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases

in issue 56

Of Sexual Hate and Lonely Death: The Mysteries of Pandora's Box — "When what you write about is what you see/What do you write about when it's dark?"
— Charles Wright

Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Mouchette, 1900, Siberiade, Oyster Princess, I Don't Want to Be a Man, King Lear, Another Sky — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases

in issue 55

An Immovable Feast? Another Look at Henry King's The Sun Also Rises — "It's sort of what we have instead of God"

Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Night Train, Edi, The Red and the White, Edgar G. Ulmer Archive, Hunger, Beyond the Rocks — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases

in issue 54

The Sweet Smell of Asphalt: Discovering Joe May's 1929 Masterwork — "Amann's sexuality in Asphalt has little in common with the chilled porcelain passivity of stars like Dietrich and Garbo . . ."

in issue 53

In Love with Liv Who Loves Life: Surviving Ingmar Bergman's Hour of the Wolf — "If the demons leave, maybe the angels will too"

in issue 52

Getting It Right the Second Time: Adapting Ben-Hur for the Screen — Bigger is better this time — though Wyler and Rozsa helped

in issue 51

A Tale of Two Kings: DeMille's Silent Classic on DVD, in Both Versions — Faith meets flamboyance in DeMille's Jesus epic, beautifully restored

in issue 50

Beautiful Dead Girl: The Olive Thomas Collection on DVD — "She's got the eyes of a great one, putting over something incalculable . . ."