Adrian Martin
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Watch: Shapes of Rage in The Birds and The Brood
Want to start your day by seeing some enlighteningly disturbing parallels between The Birds and The Brood? This video by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin connects the dots between late Hitchcock and early Cronenberg; over at MUBI, there’s an essay to go along with it. If you’re familiar with both films, you’ll know this is probably not something to watch first thing in the morning — it’s strong fare.
by Vadim Rizov on Sep 3, 2015 -
Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh, Scenes of a Crime
The 2011 winner of the Filmmaker-sponsored Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You IFP Gotham Award, Grover Babcock and Blue Hadaegh’s Scenes of a Crime is a powerful social justice documentary that uses its feature-length format as its most powerful argument for the innocence of Adrian Thomas, a New York man currently inprisoned for the shaking death of his infant son. Over the course of the film’s 88 minutes, we go beyond the soundbite, watching long stretches of Thomas’s interview by two detectives — a grilling that resulted in a confession that specialists in police interrogation believe was […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 28, 2012
