Sunday, May 01, 2011

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Pearls Before Swine
An action-adventure movie based on a kids ride at a theme park is hiding a real national treasure.
Pearls Before Swine
An action-adventure movie based on a kids ride at a theme park is hiding a real national treasure.
More Than This
Knight and Day delivers all the profundity that Inception only promises.
Explaining the Madness
A new theory to help the viewer unravel the cult classic.
Through the Maze
Meaning is where you make it.
Aerial Act
There is a God and he is pissed.
Film’s New Adventure
Pixar’s Defense of Animation
Dorothy Sayers and the American Faust Film
How a British Detective Novelist Can Help Us Understand an American Film Obsession
The Maltese Falcon
Neo’s Passport
The Dark Knight
A Copy of a Copy of a Copy
The Dreamers
The Dreamers
Reading Inland Empire
The Straight Story
Ran
Mean Streets
In Metaphilm, and in these books . . .
Leaf From Tree of Life Frontrunner for Best Actor Oscar
...Cuz everyone knows, that’s how you get famous.
... of The Last Psychiatrist. You may not be a terrible person, but you may be better able to understand why you liked American Beauty and Indecent Proposal so much.
This is what movies look like in one vibrating, colorized, sliced and diced symbolic image: interesting.
Straight from the horse’s mouth.
13 Movie poster patterns and what they tell us about the likelihood of what’s in the film. Unless of course, the film has Tilda Swinton…
In order of their appearance in Walker Percy’s 1961 novel: Stage Coach, The Third Man, Panic in the Streets, It Happened One Night, Red River, Holiday, The Oxbow Incident, All Quiet On the Western Front, Fort Dobbs, Dark Waters, The Young Philadelphians. And this is the conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its publication.
We love a happy ending: Cinema, the new cathedral, leads one unique soul back to the original Cathedral.
Metaphilm fan and filmmaker Cody Clarke has some thoughts on Synecdoche, New York as doing what The Social Network failed to do in exploring the metaphysics of Facebook. Thanks, Cody!
This is indeed ”an unusual occurrence.”
Brent Plate Gets Even Closer to the Core of The Tree of Life
Life Imitates Art Which Imitates Life
Hell Burns for The Tree of Life
Slavoj Zizek Goes to See Transformers
On Wii and the Myth of Boredom
Overheard on Twitter
The movie map…
The Future According to Film
Happy 70th Birthday, Citizen Kane
Is Osama’s Screen Presence Voldemort?
Metaphilm’s 10th Anniversary: May 2001 - May 2011
If Famous Films Had The Internet
Inland Empire explained
Happy 80th Birthday, Neil Postman
Theodicy and No Country For Old Men
Fox In Socks, FAST
600 Million Years Not Enough Preparation for Avatar 2
The Pope On The Social Network
Inception As Pre-Marital Warning
Inception: The Architecture, Visualized