Wednesday, November 11, 2009

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Film’s New Adventure

Pixar’s Defense of Animation

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Friday, September 04, 2009
Faust woodcut

Sympathy for the Devil

Dorothy Sayers and the American Faust Film

How a British Detective Novelist Can Help Us Understand an American Film Obsession

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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Watchmen, the movie, poster

Watchmen

Semiotic Superheroes

On the verge of a new kind of visual storytelling.

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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
DVD Cover: The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

Stegasaurus!

Some heavy spade-work into the magick of the classic noir.

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Sunday, August 24, 2008
The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

The Three Versions of Batman

Have the Nolan Brothers been reading Borges?

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Sunday, August 10, 2008
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club (book cover)

A Copy of a Copy of a Copy

The Matrix, American Beauty, and Fight Club as Retellings of Pink Floyd’s The Wall

A Sneak Preview from You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack’s Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection

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Sunday, May 04, 2008

The Dreamers

Revolution as a Gala Dinner and a Game

A close, detailed viewing and extended discussion of the context, plot, and themes of Bertolucci’s controversial masterwork.

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Ran
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Reservoir Dogs

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You Do Not Talk About Fight Club (book cover image)

You Do Not Talk About Fight Club: I Am Jack’s Completely Unauthorized Essay Collection. A new collection edited by Metaphilm publisher Read Mercer Schuchardt with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk. Paperback, 224 pages, from Benbella Books. Click here for a sneak preview . . .

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Monday, December 21, 2009

The Gospel According to James (Cameron)

Ross Douthat nails it on the head this crassmas season:  “Avatar” is Cameron’s long apologia for pantheism — a faith that equates God with Nature, and calls humanity into religious communion with the natural world.

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Friday, December 18, 2009

The Fuhrer and the Avatar

Avatar sucks according to Adolf.

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Your Life Is About To Change

One of the most stunning pieces of fan-criticism of Star Wars in the entire galaxy:  Why The Phantom Menace was so unspeakably bad, and why the pro… proto...protagonize...protogo, uh, main character, is non-existent.  Worth every minute of the ten years it took to produce this review.

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Monday, August 24, 2009

Quentin Tarantino’s Top Twenty Films Since 1992

To understand the mind behind Inglourious Basterds, you need to know what he’s been watching again and again and again.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

Michael Bay’s Artistic Genius Strikes Again

Former advertising man Michael Bay returns with this summer’s big hit, and possibly the most artistic movie ever filmed.  Eight years ago, Metaphilm launched with a piece on Michael Bay’s artistic style in Pearl Harbor, little realizing it was an advertisement for a yet-to-be-released political thriller.

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Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Classic Film Lines Translated to Japanese and Back

Someone with way too much time on their hands… like someone else we know.

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Monday, June 01, 2009

Fight Club Fans Running Non-Fight-Club-Related Blogs

From the “You can take the boy out of Fight Club, but you can’t take the Fight Club out of the boy” department.

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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Why Watch “House”?  And how is The Arabian Nights like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 3?

Ira Glass discloses the mysteries of good storytelling.

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Thursday, April 23, 2009

There Will Definitely Maybe Be Blood

Seriously.

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Friday, April 17, 2009

Snakes On A Plane, Actually

Uh-oh.

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