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A Playlist - What We’re Listening To 1/31/2017
Resist Resist Resist Resist Resist Resist Resist.Well, John Hurt passed away right as the nightmarish vision of the classic film 1984 is beginning to actualize in front of us. Bigotry and cultural...
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Personality Crisis: The Radical Fluidity of Todd Haynes’ ‘Velvet Goldmine’ by...
[This month, Musings pays homage to Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You’ve Never Seen, a review anthology from the National Society of Film Critics that championed studio orphans from the ‘70s...
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A Playlist - What We’re Listening To 2/7/2017
The Music of Oscilloscope: The Formative Years.The story of us here at Oscilloscope is a story of many humble beginnings. Everyone in the office was a one point in time a bundle of confusion and...
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‘O.C. and Stiggs’ And The Utterly Unreleasable, Mind-Roasting Summer Of...
[This month, Musings pays homage to Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You’ve Never Seen, a review anthology from the National Society of Film Critics that championed studio orphans from the ‘70s...
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A Playlist - What We’re Listening To 2/22/2017
Spring is Here and it’s All Your Fault!We’ve had some really fantastic and unseasonably warm weather over the past few days, and to be honest it’s feeling pretty nice. Let’s all take a moment to enjoy...
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In The Loneliest Place: The Allure Of The Homme Fatale In ‘Stranger By The...
“People who aren’t familiar with this milieu could think this is a kind of science-fiction film.” –writer/director Alain GuiraudieOf all the films that came out of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival—a...
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Not Mad, Just Disappointed: Mothers on the Edge in the ‘70s and Present by...
Starting in the early ‘70s right on through to his departure in 1982, showbiz executive Ned Tanen turned Universal Pictures into a hotbed of creativity, throwing respectable budgets at daring, original...
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A Playlist - What We’re Listening To 3/8/2017
Burn Shit Down, it’s International Women’s Day!It’s International Women’s Day and O-Scope would like to take this opportunity to declare war on sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, inequality, violence...
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From Script to Screen: The Strange Alchemy of ‘Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call...
The word “iguana” doesn’t appear in the shooting script of Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. And why should it? Written by veteran TV writer William Finkelstein, the script unfolds with the...
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A Playlist - What We’re Listening To 3/23/2017
I Volunteer As Tribute (Artist)!As it says in the Bible, “there is no new thing under the sun.” The statement seems silly at first, right? How can there be no new thing? Well, I suppose it’s meant to...
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“Chole Ke Peeche Kya Hai?”: Bollywood's Scandalous Question, and The...
In a nightclub with the mood lighting of a surgical theater, a village belle is crying out for a husband. Her friend Champa encourages and chastises her by turns; her male audience is invited to be the...
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A Playlist - What We’re Listening To - 4/6/2017
That night the Oakland chapter of the Hell’s Angels had their way. Tonight, it’s my turn. One of the most common phobias that plagues the human condition is glossophobia: the fear of public speaking....
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Cogs in the Machine: American Despair in Paul Schrader’s ‘Blue Collar’ by...
Paul Schrader’s directorial debut Blue Collar was supposedly inspired by stories of “real-life disillusionment.” Though that feeling certainly pervades the film from its opening minutes, the more...
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Dallas through the Looking Glass: Post-Truth and Kennedy Assassination Movies...
Here’s an alarming statistic: a recent CBS News poll revealed 74% of Republican voters believe the conspiracy theory that the offices of Donald Trump were wiretapped during the 2016 presidential...
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A Playlist - What We’re Listening To - 5/12/2017
A boy’s best friend is his mother.This Sunday is Mother’s Day and it’s honestly a big big load of bullshit that Mothers only get one day a year when the world is more-or-less required to show...
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The Arc Of Stanley Kubrick: From ‘Killer’s Kiss’ to ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ by Noel...
Stanley Kubrick made just 13 feature films in his nearly 50-year career, and from the ‘60s through the ‘90s—the era in which “a Stanley Kubrick picture” had a meaning—each new project went through more...
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John Waters: The Musings Interview by Alison Nastasi
John Waters, the subversive auteur behind the cult films Pink Flamingos and Pecker, watched Ryan Murphy’s recent anthology TV series Feud every week. The show chronicles the rivalry between screen...
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Lights, Camera, Mania: Showbiz Satire’s Descents Into Madness by Charles...
In his seminal tell-all Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger claimed to reveal the festering truth beneath the dream factory of the American film industry. His was a bemused but cynical perspective on the...
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In Like Flynn (Only): The Rise and Rapid Fall of the Swashbuckler by Steven...
After any viewing of Errol Flynn’s The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), one is tempted to say, “They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.” From the perfection of its casting, with Flynn, Olivia de...
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Lie To Me: The Multiple Personalities of Tom Waits’ Acting Career by Chris...
“I ain’t no extra baby, I’m a leading man.”— Tom Waits, Goin’ Out WestTom Waits lights up the screen. The minute the singer appears in a film, he brings with him a sort of atmospheric baggage—we may...
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