Wednesday, February 17, 2010
A Serious Man
Aerial Act
There is a God and he is pissed.
Dorothy Sayers and the American Faust Film
How a British Detective Novelist Can Help Us Understand an American Film Obsession
Semiotic Superheroes
On the verge of a new kind of visual storytelling.
Stegasaurus!
Some heavy spade-work into the magick of the classic noir.
The Three Versions of Batman
Have the Nolan Brothers been reading Borges?
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
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 . . .
There are lots of Inception interpretations out there. This one is our favorite so far, but we’re waiting on two more. Stay tuned.
In Armond White’s strong-willed opinion of Inception, the film should have been called Self Deception: ‘If anything, the time and consciousness tricks stolen from The Matrix make Nolan a bastard Wachowski brother, not a son of Kubrick.”
If you haven’t heard of Lindy West before, be warned: dangerous, profound, addictive. Sex and the City 2 is “essentially a home video of gay men playing with giant Barbie dolls.” Discuss.
Terry Mattingly, of Get Religion, gives an interesting interview and story with Denzel Washington about The Book of Eli and Training Day, among others.
The spirit of Fight Club moves into the ministry
The Logorama, in whom we live and breathe and have our being. Watch it before the lawyers start suing.
But is it art? All your questions answered here.
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.
The Fuhrer and the Avatar
Your Life Is About To Change
Quentin Tarantino’s Top Twenty Films Since 1992
Michael Bay’s Artistic Genius Strikes Again
Classic Film Lines Translated to Japanese and Back
Fight Club Fans Running Non-Fight-Club-Related Blogs
Why Watch “House”? And how is The Arabian Nights like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 3?
There Will Definitely Maybe Be Blood
Snakes On A Plane, Actually
Mark Plotinsky Reconfirms
The Big Wazowski
What the Wizard of Oz Can Teach Us About The Economic Crisis
Is Rinko Kikuchi the Japanese Louise Brooks?
We told you this already about Fight Club and The Matrix
The Curious Case of Forrest Gump
Eagle Eye On The Gaza Strip
Robert McKee Explains Synecdoche, NY
My History of Violence
A Movie On Your Phone? Get Real.
Indiana Jones and the Deadly Blather