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Chris Shields
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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