Press Release : May 24, 2000

by Richard Luck

Originally published on May 24, 2000

CONTACT:
Camille Renshaw
E-mail: camille@pifmagazine.com
Tel. (360) 459-7289
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4820 Yelm Highway SE, Suite [...]

The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

reviewed by Nick Burton

Originally published on May 1, 2000

What makes this film remarkable in its execution is that the film is shot entirely in close-ups, the actors looking uncomfortably real in their austere, claustrophobic setting.

Vulcan & Venus

by LindaAnn Loschiavo

Originally published on May 1, 2000

The first time he saw Venus Vulcan loved.
She was a flower, petals arching back,
Intent on showing off its pollen tease.
Without her in his life he”d be a dead sea
That’’s drying up. Without her as his wife,
The god of fire suspects he will amount
To merely supervisor of the clowns.
His smithy’’s flames were never this intense.
Those passions [...]

Interview with Francisco Goldman

interviewed by Whit Coppedge

Originally published on May 1, 2000

Francisco Goldman’s short fiction and journalism have been published
in Harper’s, Esquire, The New York Times Sunday Magazine,
The New Yorker, Outside, Playboy, Buzz, and
Mas. His first novel The
[...]

Goldfinger (1964)

reviewed by Nick Burton

Originally published on May 1, 2000

I love the Sean Connery Bond films, particularly Goldfinger and Thunderball, as they represent the point where the Bond series was still in the twilight zone between Ian Fleming’s idealized exploits of a British intelligence agent and a knowing self-parody of its own milieu.