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Nicholas Rombes
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You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
There are other odd, improbable, tenuous connections, as if Hangsaman had a secret way of speaking to (or through) other artifacts beyond its time.
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Django Take #3: (Re)chained
Django is not a movie with “villains.” Instead, the movie itself is villainous.
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Emily, Eyes Shut
To look inward, at the smallest of things—this is what novels do. And now microscopes.
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The Supreme Court School of PoMo Theory
“All literature is interactive,” [Scalia] writes, countering those who find special danger in violent video games because of their interactivity.
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Empire
There are so many details in the picture, but which ones are important? Neither of them are looking directly at each other.
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Total War: A Film Reminiscence
In those days, the only way to see David Lynch’s early, short films was to start or join a film club, pool resources, and rent them from some place like Facets in Chicago.
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Some Notes on Paranormal Activity 3 as a Structural Film
Earlier this year, I made a case for Paranormal Activity 2 as an avant-garde film,
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Donnie Darko and the Tyranny of the Franks
Perhaps the most enduring movies are those that tempt us into deep interpretation even as they resist all efforts to impose meaning on them.
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10/40/70 #37: Marnie
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine Marnie, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1964):
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Lucy’s Profound Restoration: The Trailer for Sleeping Beauty
The trailer for Sleeping Beauty (directed by Julia Leigh, 2011) clocking in at just over one minute and 30 seconds,
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Running Around Being Clones of Ourselves: The Random Topic Interview with Megan Boyle
On the evening of July 27 I interviewed Megan Boyle over gchat. Rather than prepare questions or focus on a specific topic, we used Wikipedia’s “random article” link to go to pages to generate content for our conversation.
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All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. Here are parts 1 and 2.