Here & Now & Then: 1958
Vertigo is halved by a distinct psychotic break. Scottie (James Stewart) has proven himself incapable of saving the woman he loves, Madeleine (Kim Novak), from an apparent suicide; he has helplessly...
View ArticleBombast #52
NEWS ON THE MARCH! This week the venerable UK film mag Sight & Sound released its seventh “Greatest Films of All Time” survey, the results of which have been unveiled every decade since 1952. The...
View ArticleFilms vs. Movies #28: Second Class Citizen
Don J. is a cartoonist whose film experience includes cleaning up popcorn, soda spills, and Dots at a movie theater in South Jersey. He really wants to direct.
View ArticleOn the Couch: Phobia Films
Seeing as we are just a week away from the scariest, spookiest day of the year (no no, Flag Day is in June), I thought we’d take a break from individual issues and tackle a more universal concern:...
View ArticleViva Mabuse! #27: Getting Granular
Watching Sophie Fiennes and Slavoj Zizek’s The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006) again, this time with my crit-theory class of suburban undergrads, for whom the massive Zizekian harangue is something...
View ArticleOn the Couch: Great Expectations
Some people just cannot get over it. Some film studios can’t either, seeing as this month’s release of Great Expectations marks the fifteenth adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel. Hollywood is pulling...
View ArticleViva Mabuse! #62: Stolen Children
It must be a mere statistical circumstance, a burp of number-crunched serendipity, brought about by the absurdity of attempting to assess and canonize culture by way of democratic polling. There’s...
View ArticleViva Mabuse! #63: Wong Kar-Wai’s Raindrops
The year’s-end season of Ten Best-athons approacheth, and so I dread as I always do the gradual accretion of limp-dicked ardor for English-language mediocrities seemingly prized because of their...
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