Today is Split Tooth’s 7th anniversary! To celebrate, we are happy to announce that Split Tooth favorite Frank V. Ross has a new website and his 2010 masterpiece ‘Audrey the Trainwreck’ is streaming for free! You can watch it here: frankvross.com/audrey-the-trainwreck/

To accompany the film’s new online release, we have two interviews now available on Split Tooth. First, we continue our Frank V. Ross video interview series with a new episode on ‘Audrey.’ Ross discusses the origins of the project…

'Inside Llewyn Davis' is the Coen Brothers’ most comionate work. It navigates the problems of getting the artist and their art on film by borrowing freely from the biopic, documentary, and performance film modes. It makes its own mode, a historical fiction film. The songs in the film are all real folk songs that would show up in a sober documentary on the ’60s folk scene (with the exception of the film’s “selling out” novelty number that becomes a hit).…

Much is often made of Dario Argento’s debt to Hitchcock. Saying that someone making thrillers in the mid/late 20th century is influenced by Hitchcock is hardly saying anything at all, but Argento stands alongside Brian De Palma, David Fincher, and David Lynch as one of the directors to most thoroughly and profoundly absorb the lessons of the master. Where he most differs from the others is that, rather than borrowing Hitchcock’s narrative strategies, tension setups or iconography, Argento takes Hitchcock’s…