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Nicholas Rombes

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You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • July 12, 2013
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

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • January 7, 2013
Django is not a movie with “villains.” Instead, the movie itself is villainous.
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Emily, Eyes Shut

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • July 20, 2012
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

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • June 12, 2012
“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

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • May 17, 2012
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

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • February 9, 2012
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…
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Some Notes on Paranormal Activity 3 as a Structural Film

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • October 26, 2011
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

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • October 5, 2011
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

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • September 6, 2011
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…
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Lucy’s Profound Restoration: The Trailer for Sleeping Beauty

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • August 11, 2011
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

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • July 29, 2011
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…
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All Your Base Are Belong To Us

  • Nicholas Rombes
  • July 19, 2011
Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. Here are parts 1 and 2.
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