Pet peeve: People who talk about "the Gaze" (male, female, or otherwise) but clearly haven't read Laura Mulvey's essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative...
Thanks for clarifying your argument. The late Kubrick film that strikes me as schematic and obvious is A Clockwork Orange, where the neat symmetry of...
I think it's a stretch to say that the protagonists' obsessiveness is the fundamental point of the film. Despite certain nods in that direction (most...
I disagree that the fact of an unreliable narrator means that one can simply brush away any and all inconsistencies in the narrative, since the idea...
I didn't time the violence with a stopwatch, but as I've argued in another thread, the problem as I see it is one of context and emphasis: In Zodiac...
I can't think of any 1940s Hollywood movies that were shot in a 'Scope format. Also, it may just be my computer, but some shots look so under-lit on...
Just because... The Innocents (Jack Clayton, 1961) mild You Can Succeed Too (Sugawa Eizo, 1964) mild Les Favoris de la lune (Otar Iosseliani, 1984) warm
The last book I read was... Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
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