Author Archives: Stefen Styrsky
More Dramatic Than the Situation It Depicts
A while back I went to a retrospective for the late American photographer Gary Winogrand. Part of the exhibit was a short film recording of Winogrand giving a talk to a group of UCLA students. During the question and answer … Continue reading
Reflections in a Golden Eye
I wrote a brief review/essay on the 1967 movie Reflections in a Golden Eye that is now streaming on FilmStruck. The film is directed by John Huston, the same guy who helmed such classics as The Maltese Falcon and The … Continue reading
Loneliness and the Romance of Death
The film and culture website Vague Visages has been kind enough to accept my latest movie essay. This one is on the 2013 French thriller Stranger by the Lake. Please have a read if you get the chance!
Portraits of Women in Film Noir
An essay I wrote about the use painted portraits of women appear in classic film noir is now up on the film site Vague Visages. They’d love it over there if you gave it a read. (Well, I would too!)
Buried
Buried Even though there was that Sunday you found yourself strung-out behind Whole Foods, banging on the metal service door you imagined was the entrance to a secret nightclub, and only took off when a stock boy called the cops, … Continue reading
Nocturama: A Film by Bertrand Bonello
My review of the movie Nocturama directed by Bertrand Bonello is up at the Litbreak site. Nocturama premiered at the 2016 Cannes film festival, but was never released theatrically in the US. However, it’s available for streaming on Netflix.
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