One has only to browse through comedies on Netflix with Cary Grant to see how overused is the term “screwball comedy.” (It seems that there, every film must fit into…
Just saw Alien for the first time all the way through. Maybe a coincidence, but probably not, Ridley Scott has a new film out that appears from trailers and preliminary…
Identification is less terrifying than implication. Horror films can be scary, but scarier still is that genre-less class of films that implicate the viewer in the evils of its character(s).…
With a retrospectively simple story, Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima Mon Amour complexly integrates documentary and documentary-like footage with more standard narrative-fiction chunks. Helpd a great deal by themes of Freudian repression,…
Some sure-fire signs that someone is a Marxist include: insisting on appealing to Marx for everything, rather constantly choosing to “focus” on Marx for various topics, and taking Marx’s theories…
This begins a post I didn’t think would exist, but here we are. After reading Lapsely & Westlake’s Film Theory, it became clear that Kubrick’s infamous Eyes Wide Shut held…
Precious Bodily Fluids 