For The Lens, critic Andrew Wyatt urges you to check out Samuel Fuller's gorgeous, hard-to-find film noir, House of Bamboo (1955), before it leaves the Criterion Channel at the end of the month:
"What truly impresses about Fuller’s film, nearly seven decades later, is the grand, utterly self-assured artistry that the director and his collaborators bring to every frame of what is for all purposes a B-picture."
Documentarian Jessica Oreck's new feature is a fictionalized narrative that takes a true story from WWII and turns it into a work of dystopian near-future fiction. Critic Kayla McCulloch has a review of the film, which screens this weekend at the Webster University Film Series.
In the latest episode of 'The Lens: A Cinema St. Louis Podcast', Josh, Kayla, & Andrew continue their series on filmmakers Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers with a deep dive into Meyers' directorial debut, the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap: