By: Mike Fleisch

He “invented a new language, true to the nature of film.”

By: Robert Wringham

One of the greatest comedic actors and directors of all time.

By: Devin McKinney

He gave Surrealism its smell.

By: Annie Nocenti

“I’m a whore. I go where I’m kicked.”

By: Tucker Cummings

He loved a good story, no matter what form it took.

By: Mimi Lipson

A gift for pacing and episodic structure, a deadpan sense of humor.

By: Erik Davis

His flat sub-ironic tone is at once his method and “message.”

By: Devin McKinney

Deliverance from chaos and meaningless is their obsession.

By: David Smay

Revenge and cruelty are the wicked core of his films.

By: Alix Lambert

Devotion and desolation are his themes.

By: Patrick Cates

His antics are merely the by-product of the tortured mangle that is his mind.

By: Mimi Lipson

His films came from a planet called Baltimore.

By: Jacob Mikanowski

Seventies soul, eloquent monsters, Talmudic etiquette-parsing, Samuel L. Jackson.

By: Brian Berger

“SCHOOL DAZE sets race back 200 years.”

By: Jacob Mikanowski

His films are pentagrams for the conjuration of narrative.