About halfway through Robert Altman’s Kansas City, the central metaphor of ruinous play-acting is conveyed in a story about a woman who was so enamored with Kansas City native Jean Harlow that she continued to bathe her hair in peroxide until it eventually died and broke off. In the film, that same woman finds herself […]
Read More KANSAS CITY (1996)If Eggshells was Tobe Hooper’s way of showing Texas as a hospitable place where the entrenched past and the progressive future could find an uneasy truce in the name of peace, love, and harmony, then The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, his sophomore effort from 1974, aims to tear all of it down with shocking abandon. […]
Read More THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974)Opening on a flock of birds gathered in a great tree against the orange Texas sky right before they launch themselves out and flutter away, Tobe Hooper’s Eggshells announces itself is a movie about transitions. From the leaving of the nest to the building of the nest and everything in between which even includes, according […]
Read More EGGSHELLS (1969)About halfway through Peter Savage’s 1977 hardcore effort, A Saint…A Woman…A Devil, I breathed a sigh of relief as I had quite accidentally dodged a bullet. You see, at the time, I had a stash of mushrooms that my wife and I had been saving for a special occasion. As we were both inexperienced in […]
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