Harrison Blackman
Harrison Blackman is a Fulbright scholar, a writer of fiction and nonfiction, and a TV and film project consultant.
From Broadway’s Oh, Mary! to the recent documentary Lover of Men, various storytellers have begun to consider the implications of whether Abraham Lincoln was a gay man. Enter Lovell Holder’s Lavender Men, an adaptation of Roger Q. Mason’s play, in which Lincoln’s possibly romantic relationship with legal assistant Elmer Ellsworth is conjured by a queer narrator named Taffeta.
An annual event that has showcased films about the human stories behind architecture for the past fifteen years.
A new documentary by Turkish Cypriot filmmakers spotlights efforts by queer and feminist activists to overcome the longstanding frozen conflict in the island nation of Cyprus.
For two decades, Muller has organized the Noir City Film Festival, touring the Bay Area, Hollywood, Seattle, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC; in 2017 Muller became the host of the TCM program Noir Alley.
As a careful survey of a filmmaker whose work is not yet finished, Dissident Cinema is a compelling appraisal and appreciation of Bong’s body of work. Tackling each of his seven features (and more), Han contextualizes the films and filmmaker through various essays and a series of interviews with some of Bong’s frequent collaborators.
The Cyprus International Film Festival represents an intriguing initiative to bring film culture to the periphery of the European Union and raise awareness of Cyprus’s complex geopolitical situation.
David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006) is perhaps the filmmaker’s most inscrutable film. In a new monograph on the film, Melissa Anderson contextualizes the movie as a simulacrum of the themes both Lynch and actor/star Laura Dern have taken on throughout their careers.
A tense suspense story about three soldiers hiding from scavenging locals and desperately searching for water in a forbidden cave, Do Not Hesitate (2021) is an unflinching film with a particularly dark twist that sends the film toward compelling and disturbing territory.
Since its release in 1962, Experiment in Terror has inspired artists from David Lynch to Lana Del Rey. Sometimes considered a “neo-noir” due to its production several years after the film noir’s heyday, the movie represents a bridge between the classic noir period of the 1940s and the glut of serial killer content which started arriving in the wake of The Silence of the Lambs (1991).
