The Loveless Worlds of Kathryn Bigelow
First things first: We’re not jumping on the Bigelow Bandwagon here. We’ve known from the beginning. We saw the promise in The Loveless and Blue Steel and the genius in Near Dark and Strange Days,...
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[originally published in Film Comment Volume 31, Number 5, September/October 1995] Kathryn Bigelow’s 1987 genre-juicing vampire film Near Dark opens close up on a leggy mosquito poised to tap into...
View ArticleSummer of ‘91: Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘Point Break’
In the summer of 1991, the received wisdom on Kathryn Bigelow—especially in the wake of Point Break—was that she was a rising star, making a mark on Hollywood where other women directors had not, by...
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