Strange Pleasures
Strange Pleasures: Sin City (Halloween Edition)
Strange Pleasures is a regular Metrograph column in which writer Beatrice Loayza shares unconventional desires found across underground and mainstream cinema alike.
brian de palma
Essay
Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto
Essay
Woman Trouble: On the Films of Brian De Palma and Nancy Allen
It is in Allen’s performances that we see the trickiness of De Palma’s play with gender and sex in full, fulsome flower. She is in fact his greatest envoy in the sex wars. She embodies all his work’s contradictions and somehow renders them glorious, delectable, meaningful.