Mortem

We are, through Post Mortem, made witness to an individual's foregoing of all moral responsibility in the service of survival, and to the abject title of civil servant, which Mario says with a contemptuously desperate insistence when Sandra tells him that they must act, and when a desperate mother standing outside of the morgue asks if he knows anything.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

In this ruminative episode of the Cinefantastique Post-Mortem, Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons are taken to task by a listener for not expressing sufficient love for the admittedly very well-done vampire drama, Let Me In, and go on to consider if the purpose of critical discussion is generally misunderstood.

Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Post-Mortem: I Spit on Your Grave & Loving a Film, but Not Enough Dan Persons 2010

Post Mortem has several indelibles, the description of which still won't soften one's experience which, to be certain, is heightened by the underlying moral breaches: an "autopsy" on the body of President Allende in the presence of the cabal of generals sends one reeling through time, pulled dizzyingly fast by the weight of history, as the counterweight of forgetfulness snaps free.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

Another such meditation - albeit a far less allegorical one -- on semi-recent history and by extension, a nation-state's internal reckoning, is found in director Pablo Larrain's Post Mortem, which for me, emerged as one of the most powerful films of NYFF#48.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

For Post Mortem, Larrain re-cast Tony Manero's leading man Alberto Castro, who looks like Roberto Benigni's undertaker brother -- and in Post Mortem he plays Mario, an undertaker, or rather, the undertaker's autopsy typist, fictionalizing for posterity the details of thousands of slaughtered humans, supporters of popularly elected president Salvador Allende, exterminated in 1973 by a right wing military cabal led by A. Pinochet.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010

In the release, titled "Computer Evidence in the Casey Anthony Trial -- A Post Mortem," Bradley complained he was not prepared to testify at Anthony's trial on June 8 and 9, 2011.

Casey Anthony Trial Witness John Bradley Backtracks After Blasting Prosecutors (VIDEO) 2011

We've stripped away the news, theatrical releases and homevid segments -- they'll be combined with our weekly Post-Mortem bull session to form the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast later this week.

Dan Persons: The Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: The Green Hornet Dan Persons 2011

We've stripped away the news, theatrical releases and homevid segments -- they'll be combined with our weekly Post-Mortem bull session to form the Cinefantastique Round Table Podcast later this week.

Dan Persons: The Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast: The Green Hornet Dan Persons 2011

"It allows people to safely face their fears," adds Mick Garris, a veteran horror writer and director (Critters 2, Sleepwalkers) who is a friend of Craven and Englund and interviewed both for his show, Post Mortem, on FEARnet.

Freddy Krueger returns in 'reinvention' on Elm Street 2010

Hang on to your armrest: The autopsy and dissection of Baartman; where Post Mortem gave a tragic dignity to the deceased, the cutting up of Baartman as a specimen to be bottled was simply a final indignity to a life filled with indignities.

Michael Vazquez: ON THE 48TH ANNUAL NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL Michael Vazquez 2010