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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...

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Bombast #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...

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Films 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.

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On 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:...

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Viva 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...

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On 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...

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Viva 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...

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Viva 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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