Nicolas Cage has been on a run of making several movies a year for decades now, and Sympathy for the Devil is one of his latest experiments, a pulpy chamber piece road trip mystery suspense film co-starring Joel Kinnaman. We sit down the film’s director Yuval Adler (who also happened to get his PhD inContinue reading “SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (2023)”
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NATIONAL TREASURE (2004)
We sit down with Nicolas Cage expert Keith Phipps (author of The Age of Cage) to discuss the second highest grossing film of Cage’s career (second only to its sequel). We consider the point at which this film lands in the arc of Cage’s career, and how he draws on his well of acting experienceContinue reading “NATIONAL TREASURE (2004)”
THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2009)
We head down to the Big Easy with Nicolas Cage scholar Keith Phipps (author of The Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career) to discuss Werner Herzog’s hallucinatory tale of a bad cop trying to do the right thing, of addiction in the swamp, of nature’s ever-encroaching wildness into our staidContinue reading “THE BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (2009)”
VAMPIRE’S KISS (1988) / THE ASSISTANT (2019)
The two cows journey into the madness of toxic masculinity, pairing the madcap Nicolas Cage classic “Vampire’s Kiss” with the recent Kitty Green masterpiece, “The Assistant.” How do artists use hyper-realism and non-realist expressionism to depict challenging and often elusive problems? What is the significance of using vampirism as the framing device to portray workplaceContinue reading “VAMPIRE’S KISS (1988) / THE ASSISTANT (2019)”
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