Other Recent Long Stuff
Sympathy for the Devil
Watchmen
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
In Metaphilm, and in these books . . .
Surely this is not the best keyword search for the Googlebots to be associating with this. But the ad for the movie Ted shows up on the right side of the page pretty much 1 out of 6 times when you go to the first story. This is an ongoing problem in online advertising: the bots can get the demographics right, but the psychographics call for human judgment.
We’ve said this before, but here’s another piece of compelling piece of evidence in the long list of associations between cinema and cathedral, or in this case, drive-in movie theater and megachurch.
1998: The Truman Show.
2000: Life, The Movie.
2012: The Truman Show Delusion: Psychosis in the Global Village
Conclusions: “Cultural studies of delusion have important contributions to make to the cognitive theory of delusion.”
Rewind to March, 1969: “If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them. But if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.”
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