Email Author Chuck Stephens

2005 Stories by Chuck Stephens

• Unknown Pleasures

  published October 11, 2005

  In the final moments of 1960's When a Woman Ascends the Stairs—the last classic of Japanese cinema's pre-New Wave golden... More >>

• 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

  published September 20, 2005

  A water-tower-top windmill wheezing metal machine music out across the sagebrush, the felt-dampened thup . . . thup . . . thup as dripping... More >>

• Poe Relations: Avant-Garde Veteran Revisits His Haunted Past

  published August 30, 2005

  A founding figure of the second wave of the American avant-garde, Curtis Harrington was born in Hollywood—or somewhere just down the street.... More >>

• Resistance Is Feudal

  published August 9, 2005

  Of all the agit-pulp punctuations peppered throughout action master Kihachi Okamoto’s anarchically exhilarating and archly self-skewering... More >>

• The Rupture

  published June 21, 2005

  BANGKOK, THAILAND—When Thai critic Kong Rithdee, writing in Film Comment, diagnosed the uncannily bifurcated narrative of Tropical... More >>

• 'The Judgment'

  published May 24, 2005

  Adapted from an award-winning novel by Chart Kobjitti, producer-turned-director Pantham Thongsang's The Judgment harks back to a more... More >>

• Leo DiCaprio: Alien Seductor? So Says Director Jang Jun-Hwan.

  published April 12, 2005

  "I sometimes feel as if movies from all over the world have melted inside me," said South Korean filmmaker Jang Jun-hwan with a grin during an... More >>

• Million Dollar Lady: Transgender Boxer Goes Out Of Bounds

  published February 15, 2005

  A market-driven fusion of two of Thailand's highest-grossing recent cinematic exports—the transvestite sports comedy Iron Ladies and... More >>

• Film

  published February 1, 2005

  If you're a hardcore fan of modern martial arts cinema, chances are the U.S. theatrical arrival of Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior—the... More >>