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You’re not afraid of the dark, are you?
Reading in Reverse
The only movie made about a book you can’t read, or, How to Read a Film as Text and Back Again
Twenty-Five
A country in post-9/11 crisis faces its family and friends.
In Metaphilm, and in these books . . .
A French Philosopher Talks Back to Hollywood and ‘The Matrix’. The New York Times, May 2002. Baudrillard “noted that the film’s ‘borrowings’ from his work ‘stemmed mostly from misunderstandings’ and suggested that no movie could ever do justice to the themes of this book. This sounds like a parody of a French intellectual, but it also happens to be true.”
The Lord of the Rings - The Secret Diaries, an offbeat reading from Cassandra Claire.
"But actually,” Swofford explains, “Vietnam War films are all pro-war, no matter what the supposed message, what Kubrick or Coppola or Stone intended. . . . The magic brutality of the films celebrates the terrible and despicable beauty of their fighting skills. Fight, rape, war, pillage, burn. Filmic images of death and carnage are pornography for the military man.”
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
