A Tale of Two Godzillas
When talking about Godzilla, either as a film or a cultural icon, one must be careful to distinguish between the “King of the Monsters” who squashes cities underfoot and frequently does […]
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The Filmmaker is Present: Authorial Immersion and Intervention in the Films of Ondi Timoner
About an hour into We Live in Public, Ondi Timoner’s 2009 profile of Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris, there is a sequence depicting an altercation between Harris and his then-girlfriend Tanya […]
My Friends are the Best People: Narrational Bias in Barry Lyndon
Time is often kind to the films of Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick’s technical mastery is such that his works tend to age better than films of similar vintage, rarely seeming dated […]
Gravity’s Message is Too Earthbound
WARNING: This review contains spoilers, including a discussion of the film’s ending. Being stranded in outer space is a terror of unfathomable proportions for most. Beyond the purely logistic horrors […]
“This can’t be the end of the dream.”
There is an ephemeral quality to the films of Harmony Korine, the sense of fleeting, unguarded moments, captured perhaps by happenstance, and arranged so loosely as to seem almost plotless. […]
No Pain, No Gain
The idea that sacrifice is necessary for success, that effort and expense are required to turn one’s velleity into reality, has long been encapsulated with admirable concision by the epigrammatic […]
“It’s not easy to lead an honest life.”
“I don’t know if I’m an alcoholic, really,” Kate Hannah says at her first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, “I just drink. I drink a lot. And I’ve always drank a lot, […]
