work of a master

With her lavishly illustrated book, Lucca has given us the most rigorous critical analysis of the director’s work to date, reframing Cronenberg’s career as something more than the work of a master of “body horror,” a term that she regards as reductive and dismissive.

Take-no-prisoners storytelling, the work of a master storyteller.

And in a recording leaked this week of a woman who sounds like Jackson Lee talking to an aide, we see the work of a master at the top of her craft.

Yet, while it’s easy to dismiss “Dark Glasses” as the work of a master gone soft, Pastorelli’s prickly, sharp-tongued Diana is perhaps the most charismatic leading lady of Argento’s career.

“The Woman Who Ran” is a cinematic sketch, and also the work of a master.