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12.22.99
Apocalypse Already
From Issue 11/12
by Clarke Cooper
These days even the end of the world is Disneyfied.


Zooming through Space
From Issue 13
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris explores the art of the zoom.


Motley Cruise
From Issue 13
by Ingrid Schorr
A review of Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored.


A Swimming in the Head
From Issue 13
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris laments the restoration of Vertigo.


Convent Erotica
From Issue 14
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris reviews nunspoitation films.


My Life as a Wookiee
From Issue 14
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke discusses what is essentially a religious question.


Saved by Betrayal
From Issue 15
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris Fujiwara explores the loss of "raw power" in the restoration of Touch of Evil.


The Will to Scorn
From Issue 15
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper discusses the Golden Rule of cinematic etiquette.


Atlas Against the Czar
by Chris Fujiwara
The sword and sandal runs its course.

The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: An Introduction
by Club Havana
"The singular visions of the films we like will overshadow the stuffed-and-mounted 'classics' of a movie culture that refuses to admit there's a world out there waiting to be discovered."

The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1939
by Club Havana
Huge monoliths of that golden year and the expressive potential of the image.


The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1946
by Club Havana
Post-war disillusionment and the inadequacy of film noir.


Pinocchio for Dummies
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper does not review Bicentennial Man.


Castle of Blood
by Chris Fujiwara
What happens when a film entertains us?


A Better Mousetrap
by A. S. Hamrah
What was deservedly an obscure fetish—the desire to see small,defenseless animals crushed under women's heels—is underground no more.


The Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1953
by Club Havana
CinemaScope, 3D, progressive aesthetics, and "psychotronic" films.


Naked Co-Ed Molerat Games
by Clarke Cooper
We don't expect much from the Action/Adventure aisle.


Freaknolia
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris Fujiwara tells us something "important" about American cinema.


Softcore, You Know the Score
by James Parker
James Parker's hack soul flickers near the light of Film Criticism.


Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1968
by Club Havana
High art and low art smashed into each other in the cinema of 1968.


100 Years...100 Laughs
by Chris Fujiwara
AFI salutes America's funniest movies.


Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1976
by Club Havana
The best films of 1976 are difficult and demanding, showing helplessness and lack of direction.


Club Havana Secret History of Cinema: 1986
by Club Havana
1983 saw, on the one hand, the release of successful entertainments that proved how thoroughly the seventh art had degenerated.


Lights, Camera, Organ!
From Issue 15
by A.S. Hamrah
A. S. Hamrah reviews a book by Ray Manzerick.


Causes, Parallels, and Talking Horses
From Issue 15
by Chris Fujiwara
Chris Fujiwara is repeatedly amazed by Arsenal.


Club Havana Secret history of Cinema: 1994
by Club Havana
1994 is the year, more than any other, that epitomizes the insanity of the Secret History of Cinema project.


If You Fake It, They Will Come
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper introduces readers to the family of extra-special effects.
From Italy to Iran
From Issue 15
by A. S. Hamrah
Scott Hamrah discusses Rosellini and Voyage to Italy.


Insider, The Musical
by Jim Munroe
Jim Munroe interviews Chris Wilcha about his tape The Target Shoots First.


Two and a Half Hours Later
by Clarke Cooper
Clarke Cooper has a restful two and a half hours watching Cast Away.


Motley Cruise
Ingrid Schorr
Ingrid remembers the day Princess Diana passed away and Tommy Lee steered a boat with his penis.


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