Month: February 2011
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The Purple Rose of Cairo: Subverting Cinema
It was awhile ago when we watched this one, which came via the lovely Netflix Instant feature streaming via Nintendo Wii. (Somewhere Jack Donaghy is drooling over the synergy.) So, the screenshots here will undoubtedly be inferior to the norm. Needing a little refresher, enlisted the assistance of Arnold W. Preussner, whose helpful article “Woody…
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Quickies, Vol. XXIX: Fantasies
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (dir. Steven Spielberg, 1977) – At this point, Spielberg hadn’t quite mastered his balance between grand scope and human interest; it’s overly big with not enough emphasis on the small. It’s good and well to offer a regular joe as your main protagonist, but don’t dwarf him too much.…
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I Live in Fear, or, Record of a Living Being
It had been too long since a Kurosawa viewing, and certainly too long since a first-time viewing. Hadn’t seen the alternately titled I Live In Fear or Record of a Living Being on account of its exclusion from Criterion’s standard-disc collection and subsequent inclusion in the Eclipse set “Postwar Kurosawa.” Ultimately, this is probably more…
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Images of Anxiety, or, Paranoia Pics
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: New Testament Imagery
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: Colonialist Imagery
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Raiders of the Lost Ark: Old Testament Imagery
Precious Bodily Fluids 