“If you haven’t seen it, please do.”
“If you haven’t seen it, please do.” –Richard Dawkins, parenthetically discussing Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life in his book The God Delusion. If Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life […]
Tag Archives: filmmaking
Caveat Emptor
Matthew McConaughey has been on something of a winning streak for the past year or so, with strong supporting work in Bernie, The Paperboy, and Magic Mike. Apparently deciding all […]
Josh Radnor’s Affectionate Footnote
Walking across a college campus is an evocative image, conjuring halcyon days of unfettered didactic discourse and effortlessly lateral social expansion. I felt that way before I had been to […]
Phenomenological Eschatology: The Personal Apocalypse in Recent Cinema
There has been an interesting trend over the past several years in regard to the cinematic sub-genre known as “disaster films,” or films which depict a large-scale crisis of some […]
“Keep your eyes open and your thoughts pure.”
As far as mainstream sex symbols go, few are willing to plumb the depths of depravity as fully and as frequently as Asia Argento. This is significant not only in […]
Animals and Other Roommates
Early on in Michael Mohan’s keenly observed film — in fact, in the first shot — we see our protagonist Sarah hunched over a table in the bookstore she manages, […]
“You either steal with a gun or a pen.”
Authorship in documentary filmmaking can be a tricky subject. It’s partly to do with the propriety of intellectual material; primarily, though, the ideal audience is willing and able to ascribe […]
A Decade and a Half of Crazy Summers
Whenever a film depicts the lives of fictitious individuals against a noteworthy historical backdrop, the question must be raised: do the filmmakers use their characters to humanize an otherwise emotionally […]
Regarding the Other
Andrea Arnold’s Heathcliff is sort of a bastard. Not in the sense that nothing is known of his lineage — he’s just a downright selfish and obstinate bastard. Of course, […]
“What can I say? I like a winner.”
Todd Solondz has at this point firmly established himself as the preeminent chronicler of the rotten underbelly of suburbia. His characters are often vile, deplorable, riddled with insecurities; they tend […]
Considering Film 