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October 30, 2021

The Role of Conflict in Tomcat

This article contains spoilers. Tomcat centers around one sharp moment of horror. A single lightning bolt out of nowhere that leaves you breathless. Tomcat is […]
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October 30, 2021

Subject Position in Bone

The movie, Bone was released in 1972 and everything about it reflects that time frame. In 1972 Richard Nixon was president, Gloria Steinem’s published the first issue […]
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October 30, 2021

Let The Corpses Tan

I’ve never seen a film as jam packed with cinematic acrobatics as Let The Corpses Tan. Its a hyper-stylized, over the top, morass of filmmaking. Its […]
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October 29, 2021

Favorite Scenes №15 To Catch A Thief

Hitchcock often made realism and plausibility a priority in his films. Movies like Rope, Strangers on a Train, and Psycho were meant to be seen as events that could […]
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October 29, 2021

Neil Breen’s Fateful Findings

“I can’t believe you committed suicide, I can not believe you committed suicide. How could you have done this? How could you have committed suicide?” […]
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October 29, 2021

The Headless Woman

The most salient feature of Lucrecia Martel’s 2004 film, The Headless Woman, is the insightful and meticulous observations she finds in mundane moments. The way droplets of […]
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October 28, 2021

Favorite Scenes №14: The Breakfast Club

John Hughes may have his limitations as a filmmaker but in his 1985 comedy The Breakfast Club, he finds an ingenious expositional device that he uses […]
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October 28, 2021

You Should See Yedu Chepala Katha, But Wear a Helmet.

​It could not have been easy to make a two hour, narrative film that is completely unintelligible. You’d think they might stumble across some continuity […]
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October 28, 2021

Reconciling The Wayward Cloud

​A young man climbs on to the roof of a high-rise and carefully sneaks into a water tower. He soaps up and lazily floats in the […]
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October 28, 2021

Joe Massot's Wonderwall

What an odd movie Wonderwall is. It was made in 1968 by Joe Massot, who would later co-direct The Song Remains The Same. Wonderwall could have been a […]
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October 27, 2021

There Has Never Been A Film Like The Act of Killing

When I first heard the premise for The Act of Killing it sounded like a terrible idea and after seeing it I remain undecided. I am astonished […]
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October 26, 2021

The Bothersome Man: Bloody Hilarious

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” (Friedrich Nietzsche) Jens Lien’s 2006 film The […]
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October 25, 2021

Favorite Scenes №11: Moonlight

​Barry Jenkins made Moonlight In 2016. In it, we witness a young man’s struggle to construct a male identity. In the first third of the film, we […]
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October 25, 2021

Do You See What I See: Interpreting 8 ½

In reading about Fellini’s 8 ½ I was surprised by the number of critics and reviewers who focused on the film as a depiction of what it is […]
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October 25, 2021

The Lives of Others

The first hour of Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck ’s 2006 film The Lives of Others is masterful. The atmosphere is taut and cold. There is […]
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October 25, 2021

Social Psychology In Mehrjui’s Gaav (The Cow)

The first two-thirds of Dariush Mehrjui’s film Gaav (The Cow) feel’s like a biblical parable. It is not predictable, but it feels like it’s going to be. […]
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October 24, 2021

Kiarostami’s Where Is The Friend’s House?

​Jean-Luc Godard famously bragged “All I need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” but he was a pretentious asshole. All Abbas […]
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October 23, 2021

How Women’s Bodies Occupy Space In Women Without Men

I didn’t realize how much I adjust my expectations when I sit down to watch an Iranian film. I hear Farsi being spoken, I see […]
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October 23, 2021

Favorite Scenes №9: Ran

​In 1985 Akira Kurosawa finished his grand-scale opus, Ran. The film is his interpretation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. It is full of spectacular imagery, ornate […]
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October 22, 2021

The Ultraman Story

When I was a freshman in college and I first walked into Miller Dining Hall I saw something I had never seen before. There was […]
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October 22, 2021

The Abnormal Woman

The Abnormal Woman was directed by George Rodgers in 1969. It was filmed without sound and has narration dubbed over it. It came out just […]
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October 22, 2021

György Pálfi’s Hukkle

The world of cinema is most often constructed out of three shots: the wide shot, the medium shot, and the close-up. It’s a relative analog to […]
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October 22, 2021

Buddha, Japan’s Answer to The Ten Commandments

​When Cecil B Demille made The Ten Commandments he made at least some effort to stay true to his source material. It may not be […]
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October 22, 2021

György Pálfi’s Taxidermia

After you recover from the shock of the opening scene you realize you will need to recalibrate your surrealism scale if you are going to […]
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