An Introduction

The Dark Heart of the Cinema strives to explore less quotidian pathways of cinema.  We will explore everything from silent classics and early sound films, through bizzarro 70s euro-trash, to contemporary independent and Hollywood cinema.  TDHOTC aims to share and shed light upon oft-overlooked aspects of cinema. 

Areas and filmmakers of particular interest:  trashy 70s euro thrillers and horror pictures, french crime films, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jacques Becker, Jacques Tati, film noir, early cinema & silent period, Antonioni, Tarkovsky, face transplant movies, John Carpenter, Blaxploitation pictures, Hitchcock, Yakuza pictures, Kenneth Anger.