Susan Sontag’s debut film serves as an intriguing cinematic extension of her more well-known written work.
Rüdiger Suchsland’s film is a master class in the relationship between image production and ideology writ large.
Adam West and Burt Ward are antipodal to every subsequent incarnation of Batman and Robin. The dynamic duo are blithe fuddy duddies turned billionaire scions in spandex.
Ann-Margaret’s performance is like a rambunctious asterisk to Susan Sontag’s essay published the same year.
This filmic essay on the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War finds Susan Sontag toying with audio-visual cues and narrative irony in ineloquent if occasionally endearing ways.
If nothing else, There Will Be Blood has been a boon to the T-shirt industry.
For anyone unfamiliar with Robert Wilson’s work, Susan Sontag’s hyperbole may be a sign of what you’re in for.