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Hoda Barakat's Sayyidi wa Habibi: The Authorized for Students of Arabic

Hoda Barakat and Laila Familiar

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Sayyidi wa Habibi (My Master and My Love) is a novel by acclaimed Lebanese author Hoda Barakat,...

Tapas & Spanish Best-Ever Recipes: The Authentic Tatse of Spain: 130 Sun-Drenched Classic Dishes from Every Part of Spain, Shown in 230 Stunning Photographs

Pepita Aris

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This title deals with the authentic taste of Spain: 130 sun-drenched classic dishes from every part...

Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600

Alison More

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Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and...

Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism

Victoria Pitts-Taylor

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Feminists today are re-imagining nature, biology, and matter in feminist thought and critically...

LoganCrews (2861 KP) rated Interview with the Vampire (1994) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

How can a movie that does practically everything wrong still be so thoroughly enchanting? A fundamentally baffling, scalding hot trainwreck of epic proportions that hasn't held up to the passage of time really at all - a miscalculated weirdo relic of pop culture history. I think a lot of this film's appeal has to do with the fact that it's complete lightning in a bottle - for better or for worse we will never see another movie like this again: mopey, homoerotic rococo vampires stumble around through a flounderingly-paced pre-𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 template for lectures on moral dilemmas and a gallery of some of the most lush period visuals of the 90s (from the sweltering plantations of the 1700s south to the decadence of gothic European high-life, it's all orgasmically displayed). Also this is maybe the best use of "Sympathy For The Devil" in a film, even if it is an inferior cover. The fact that Brad Pitt wanted to die the entire time while filming for this woefully underconstructed character actually makes it the only thing that works with it, considering his only defining feature is... that he wants to die. A totally birdbrained brothel of jagged writing and wicked scenery-chewing from a glorious cast (you know you're in for a treat when Christian Slater gives the most restrained performance lol), actually pretty great even though it disembowels a lot of the original text's depth. Full-tilt camp.