Wednesday, November 21, 2001
They Are Alive
(JFK to Z)
The questions of convincing bullshit and propaganda in a righteous cause.
(JFK to Z)
The questions of convincing bullshit and propaganda in a righteous cause.
Snatched from the Food Chain
Animal Planet meets Magnolia as Guy Ritchie gives us a taste of Social Darwinism. Can we escape the food chain?
If I’m not my f’ing khakis, am I my f’ing leather pants?
Fight Club wants you to shop—at really cool stores.
The Death of Psychology
Bang! Psychology is dead. The age of science is over. (If you don’t believe us, just check out the WB.) Long live Mulder!
A Penetrating Analysis
Phallic light sabers. X-Wing penetration. A dominatrix father. Ugh. Sounds like a tale of impotence.
Hanks goes meta in Cast Away, an updated version of Joe Versus the Volcano.
typical American film, naive
and silly, canfor all its silliness and even by means of
itbe instructive. A fatuous, self-conscious English film
can teach one nothing. I have often learned a lesson from a silly
American film.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, journal entry (1947)
The Cinema IS the New Cathedral
The Truman Show as DSM V Category
When You Have to Run and Pee During the Film
True Grit and Canada
TIME magazine mock-ups in movies
The Princess Bride as Grading Rubric
Let’s Hope This Isn’t The Only Way Tree of Life Could Win
I’ll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless…
The Descendants on the Couch
Cinemetrics
“Nuked the Fridge” is the new “Jumped the Shark”
You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, but You CAN Judge A Movie By Its Poster
These are the movies of The Moviegoer
Hollywood Star Makes Good
Synecdoche, New York
Truman Burbank, Call Your Office, STAT
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