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.
In Metaphilm, and in these books . . .
And you thought superfastreader was quick: this girl reads fast.
Walter Murch lays down the law on why 3D cannot, and will not, ever, work.
He’s not commenting on the film, but the phenomenon, which is interesting enough.
"Honestly, the most profound statement the picture could be seen as making is that French broads are crazy, and one ought think twice about marrying and/or having children with them.”
Rick Slusher’s useful visualization of the architecture of Inception: five levels, eight characters, changing perception of time. Not sure he has Mal located properly, and the film starts in Limbo not Reality, but the graphic is still potentially useful for your own analysis in keeping track of the various elements. One data point that needs continuous tracking and is not presented here: whose dream are we in from level to level, and does that stay consistent from scene to scene?
A.O. Scott tries to give up “meta” for the new year, and fails. We are greatly relieved.
Well, we knew it was only a matter of time before someone made the YouTube version of Galvin Chow’s famous Fight Club interpretation.
Japanese actress Hideko Takamine has died. Many of her films are available through Netflix, although Floating Clouds is not.
Walker Percy: A Documentary Film is coming out officially on January 26th, but you can see it screened at one of these few locations this very semester if you’re lucky.
An undated letter to the editor on Roger Ebert’s site includes a thoughtful interpretation of No Country for Old Men (h/t reader Kyle Spangle).
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
