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Chris Shields

Film Comment Recommends: Întregalde

By Chris Shields
March 21, 2022
Country living: Radu Muntean’s searching gaze digs beneath the surface of an adventure gone wrong to unearth an incisive parable about charity and power

Finest Hour: Patrick Dewaere in Série noire

By Chris Shields
January 18, 2022
Crime and punishment: the French actor is at once grotesque and rivetingly human in Alain Corneau's 1979 thriller

In Memoriam: Stuart Gordon

By Chris Shields
April 1, 2020
From beyond: the director of Re-Animator leaves behind a varied and endlessly imaginative body of work

TCM Diary: The Town That Dreaded Sundown

By Chris Shields
October 29, 2019
Baggy monsters: Charles B. Pierce’s 1976 proto-slasher film provided the basic structural DNA for countless imitators

Readings: Ishiro Honda: A Life in Film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa

By Chris Shields
March 23, 2018
Man behind the monsters: a biography of the kaiju director shines light onto his aesthetics and principles

Happy New Gehr! An Interview with Ernie Gehr

By Chris Shields
December 31, 2017
Got a light: the foundational filmmaker talks about the origins of his experimental techniques in essential works such as Serene Velocity

One in a Million

By Chris Shields
November 3, 2017
Filmmakers and casting directors on the search for non-actors (and the right fit) 

Art/Form: Fulci’s Brush with Death

By Chris Shields
July 24, 2017
Written in blood: Italian avant-garde art and Lucio Fulci’s gutsy horror, together at last (with a dash of Bava)

TCM Diary: Halloween in July

By Chris Shields
July 13, 2017
The science of shriek: the rampage of Kyle MacLachlan in The Hidden and two other frightful delights

In Memoriam: Vito Acconci

By Chris Shields
May 8, 2017
Close talker: a few words on the performance artist and the cinematic immediacy of his art