Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Mary Poppins
Practical Citizenship for Toddlers
How Mary Poppins corrupts the minds of our good capitalist youth.
Practical Citizenship for Toddlers
How Mary Poppins corrupts the minds of our good capitalist youth.
The Weirdness of the Wonder of Oz
What makes the Wiz so wonderful? It’s the movie of the American Century—and the story of public relations.
I Am Jack’s Obscure Origins. A reading from
Mike White at Cashiers
du Cinemart.
"In the fellowship of the microchip, you may crash but ultimately you win. In computer games the goal is to overpower the enemy. There is no place for negotiation or compromise.” An editorial interpretation by Sherry Turkle in The New York Times: ”The Lord of the Hackers,” March 7, 2002.
An interpretation of Kubrick’s 2001. The Space Odyssey Explained. A beautiful Flash site. Check it out.
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