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The Ring Structure of Film Interpretation
Need We Mention This?
Drive-bys
If X did not exist it would be necessary for us to invent X . . .
Hollywood Animal Gone Wild
Death of Story
Rage, Rage
Bruce Almighty
Paycheck
Memento

pheatures

Reservoir Dogs
X-Men vs. Superman
BloodViolet
Nietzsche and the Meaning of Noir
Star Wars - Batman Begins
Star Wars
Is There a Shire in the Text?
Deconstructing Fear
Gibson’s Sublime Passion
God, Suicide, and the Meaning of Life
The Decalogue
Forget, Memory
First Drafts
The Sopranos
Is Grammer and Foremat Important?
Job, The Movie
Beyond Thumbs Up or Down
A Brief History of Las Vegas
The Redemption of Guilt
Save Us!
Poetic License and Geography
Tolkien’s Green Time
Finding Hulko
Priests in Black
Daniel 05:15
The Axis of Goth
The Americans
The Europeans
They Are Alive
Rebel Consumer
The Evolution of Tom Hanks
Cinema—The New Cathedral of Hollyworld

philm shorts

Get Happy, Get Bliss
Good Night and Good Luck
Marxtrix
Metropolis
Hero and Propaganda
A Dear Byron Letter
Dogville
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Life of Brian
The Passion over the Passion
21 Grams
The Silence of the Lambs
The Ring and the Diabolical Imaginary
Finding Nemo
Kill Bill, Vol. 1
Economics Lost in Translation
What compels us to visit The Exorcist?
Anything Else
Bruce Almighty
Fight Club's Hidden Conflict
Fight Club
The Way We Were
Babette's Feast and the Reclamation of Melodrama
The Hulk (and the Bunny)
2 Fast 2 Furious
Transformers: The Movie
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Scent of a Woman
The Matrix Reloaded
The History of the One Ring
Punch Drunk Love
Pinocchio
The Lord of the Rings
Vertigo
The Matrix
The Shining
Halloween
A.I.
Trainspotting
Fight Club
The Lord of the Rings
2001: A Space Odyssey
Apocalypse Now Revisited
A.I.
Hannibal

philms

Casino Royale
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Unforgiven
The Wicker Man
Trainspotting
V for Vendetta
The Passion of the Christ
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Cube
Jurassic Park
No Direction Home
2001: A Space Odyssey
Dead Man
Napoleon Dynamite
Land of the Dead
The Wicker Man
Cape Fear
Ocean's Twelve
House of Wax
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Incredibles
Donnie Darko
Hotel Rwanda
Toy Story 2
Sideways
Spider-Man 2
Elephant
Girl with a Pearl Earring
I Heart Huckabees
Alien vs. Predator
The Big Lebowski
Gothika
Blade Runner
Donnie Darko
Spider-Man 2
Pulp Fiction
21 Grams
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Player
Phone Booth
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Hellboy
Die Hard
Being John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich
Punch-Drunk Love
The Passion of the Christ
Lost in Translation
Alien
Mystic River
Clue
Être et Avoir
Ghost World
Big Fish
The Last Samurai
Mystic River
It's a Wonderful Life
Fight Club
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Matrix Revolutions
Akira
Irréversible
The Lion King
Identity
Pulp Fiction
Masked and Anonymous
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
The Animatrix
Cat People
The Matrix: Reloaded
The Matrix: Reloaded, Re-Decoded
Pirates of the Caribbean
28 Days Later
The Matrix: Reloaded, Decoded
Sweet Home Alabama
The Man Who Wasn't There
Eyes Wide Shut
X-Men / X2
Magnolia
Solaris
The Shining
XXX
About a Boy
Stone Reader
25th Hour
Adaptation
Chocolat
Josie and the Pussycats
Standing in the Shadows of Motown
8 Mile
The Wizard of Oz
Le Poulet en Colère
Twelve Monkeys
Amélie
The Sum of All Fears
Minority Report
Planet of the Apes
The Powerpuff Girls
Y tu mamá también
A Beautiful Mind
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Metropolis (1927)
Panic Room
Metropolis (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums
Legally Blonde
Donnie Darko
Spider-Man
The Lord of the Rings
Monster's Ball
A Beautiful Mind
Training Day
Memento
Mary Poppins
Planet of the Apes
The Wizard of Oz
The Lord of the Rings
Waking Life
Snatch
Shrek
The Sixth Sense
Star Wars
The Others
Enemy at the Gates
Mulholland Drive
The Siege
Pearl Harbor
Top Gun
Blow
The Truman Show
A.I.
The Matrix
Toy Story
Lady and the Tramp
Fight Club
The Game
Forrest Gump

phlagrant

Is Sandra Bullock the Cure for the Common Cold?
This Is Not Happening
The Matrix Meets YouTube
This Comes Highly Recommended
Da Vinci Code CleAVes You Wondering
Another Calvin & Hobbes and Fight Club Connection
Sacred Profanity
Matrix Ghosts
Movies as political puppets
The Gospel of Tomorrow
Oscar Night Projections
Lights! Camera! Being!
A Little Close to the Bone...
Bottoms Up
Disney's PR Office Gloating...
Ikea-Phobia and Fight Club
Irresistible Revisionist Historiography

phlog

Shining -- The Feel Good Movie of 1980
WARNING! SITE UPDATE COMPLETE. CHANGE URLs
How Many Great Films Does A Guy Have to Make...
Marshall McLuhan: Film Critic, Political Strategist
A Bright Guilty World
Star Wars Meets YouTube
David Bordwell Speaks, But Is Not Seen
Chewbacca: Matchmaker, Mythkeeper, Main Character
The Meatrix Has You
A Knight's Tale
Cyber Cinema, 1981-2001
Sopranos in Drag
It's Out: Philip Seymour Hoffman Wins Oscar
I Want This To Be A Hoax
Alone In The Dark
Dark Art
Movies as Therapy
The Dharma of Star Wars
The Chronic Rock-les of Narnia
TV Snow and Poltergeist
Star Wars as Postmodern Art Epic
Sexy Beast
Redeeming (or Exploiting?) the Matrix
On the Place of Evil in Film
Is it shameless if you get somebody else to do it for you?
Announcing the Metaphilm Movie Mapper!
Land of the Dead
Bruce Wayne, Defendant
Bioethics at the Movies
Now there is an interpretation.
Miyazaki II
Mystery and movies
Let's Hope That's Not the ONLY Reason...
Use the Farm, Cuke!
Jedi as Religion
Juvenile Pop Culture Creators, Compared
Episode III Obligatory Commentary
George Lucas, Interpretive Vindicator
Apples and Oranges, but still an interesting comparison...
Palindromes
Bresson's Product Placement
Whahuh? Oh...yeah.
Incredibles and the Right
RIP JPII
What Kind of Doctor Are You?
And you thought WE took movies seriously.
Clint Eastwood’s Euthanasia Movie
Why There Are So Many Doors in Movies
State of Fear - Day After Tomorrow
Groundhog Day
NYT on EWTN
Philosemetism
Forget Me Not
Napoleon Dynamite
Interpreting Susan Sontag
Roger Ebert, Fanboy
The Rebel Sell
What Makes Them Incredible
Red Flag on Incredibles Politics?
Interpreting interpreters
Two Family Movies
Shaun of the Dead
Docu-Trauma
Team America World Police
Shards for The Birds
I ♥ Huckabees
Gangstar Wars
Lebowski and C3PO
Shaun of the Dead
Fruitful, Consuming Paranoia: A Sci-Fi Master’s Madness
Monday Night at Morton's
The Giants of Anime are Coming
The Secret Pleasure of Not Watching Catwoman
Wim Wenders
Media Mini-Trend on Christians at the Movies
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Two Good Questions
I don't want to talk about it
...A Constant Struggle
Bleak?
Evoking new heights of passion
Memory and the Movies
Music in a Foreign Language
Offshoring the Audience
Perspective
The Gift of Fear
God, Send a Realistic Tech Flick
When There’s No More Room in Hell
Tarantino on The Passion
Mortality and Mercy in Los Angeles
Movie Physics
Serious Writers and the Silver Screen
It's not a documentary?
The Magic of Images
Spinach Cinema (SPIN.ich sin.uh.muh) n.
Elvish Is Studied Here
Ancanar Footage to Premiere at Ringbearer's Day
Perfect! It's actually my ... third choice ... but it's wonderful
The Dark Materials debate
Shock and Awe, or Plot and Acting?
Is The Sopranos a Chick Show?
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
The Movie Alphabet Game
Today, a Movie Beauty's Got to Look Beastly
Woody Allen, pretentious—or?
Red and Blue Movies?
So That's Where Pink Floyd Got The Idea
It's Movieoke Night!
Let Sundance Say “Amen!”
Free Billy!
A Mighty Wind
World of Horror
Enraged Filmgoers: The Wages of Faith?
The Word, According to John
Metropolitan and Mansfield Park
The Celluloid Presidency
Did Big Fish Kill Spalding Gray?
Loving the Hulk
Special Effects Become Mannerist
A List of Philosophical Films
The Shawshank Redemption
The Wilhelm Scream
The Passion of the Christ
Cinema Comes Full Circle
'That's What I'm Tolkien About!'
Boomer 'Revisionists'
Miracle on 34th Street
J. R. R. Tolkien, Enemy of Progress
Groundhog Almighty
The Sensitive Guys' Guide to Mayhem and Death
May I have a show of hands?
Marshall McLuhan, Film Interpreter
Stone Reader Succeeds
Whit Stillman, Class Clown
Matrix Revolutions, The Corporate Mofo Guide
Every Man a Demiurge
Haunted Hollywood
Bleating the Matrix
If Pigs Could Fly
Lynch Goes from Twin Peaks to World Peace
The Matrix as hip philosophy textbook
The Salma Hayek vs. Friedrich Hayek Scorecard
Hop into History
City of Angels Film Festival, Oct 23-26
Godspy
A Festival for the Rest of Us
Why Buffy Kicked Ass
Movie Therapy
Here and Hereafter
Christ Figures in the Movies
Movies That Trick Us
The Rings of Tolkien and Plato
Face of an Angel
The Pretentious Summer Superhero
Lights, Camera, Action. Marxism, Semiotics, Narratology.
Sunny Side Up
Banner Wrath
Legally Arnold
Ideology Reloaded
Pentium Matrix
Marprelate Matrix
The Matrix Loses Its Way
The Matrix and Monsters Inc.: Mirror Movies?
Blockbuster mentality killed movie creativity
High-Heeled and Dangerous
Hindu Matrix?
All the Rage: The Hulk in Us All
F/X Porn
Dominatrix Reloaded
Hollow Matrix
Audio Decoded
A Culturewatcher's Take on The Matrix
Gnosis Reloaded
One Baaad Messiah
The Message of Bruce Almighty
Fab hats, with a smirk
Why We Are Drawn to The Matrix
The Matrix as Midrash
There's No Exit From the Matrix
The intellectual and 'The Matrix'
The Matrix way of knowledge
Bad Interpretation
The Gospel According to Neo
The Unreal Thing
God finally gets his close-up?
The Matrix Legacy
Keanu Reads
Who Knew?
The Matrix: Rejected
Higher Powers
Wide Angle Tie-ins
Philosophers and The Matrix
Monsters from the Id
Welcome to the New Metaphilm
The End (of Movies as We Know Them)?
Is this heaven? No, it's a sports movie
Baudrillard and The Matrix
Movie One-Liners
Lord of the Rings
Vietnam War Films
Clone of the Attacks
Buffy, Theologian of the Year

quotes

Lloyd Cole, Film Interpreter
Ralph Winter
13, 1977, 21
Explanations are Hell
Tom Wolfe, Frat House Film Interpreter
I, Robot
Anschutz Manifesto
He says this like it’s a bad thing
The Purpose of Discussion
On Good Movies
Church of the Masses
Silly American Films
A Movie Critic Repents
Dumb Films Say More Than You Think
A.I.

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Devil's Rejects
V for Vendetta
Call for Papers: Fight Club and Philosophy
Call for Submissions
Ed Gein-ophobia
Dumb and Dumber
Shawshank Redemption
Interpreters Wanted