Introducing Tony Conrad
This review was originally published in the Spring of 2019. The Philadelphia Institute Of Contemporary Art (ICA) in coordination with the Lightbox Film Center has curated a retrospective of Tony… Read more »
Category: Editorials
American Spectacle
This piece was originally written in March 2014. Jean-Luc Godard has said that the cinema died when filmmakers failed to show the Holocaust. Godard has also stated that the Americanization… Read more »
Star Trek
The Hollywood blockbuster has become a staple of the American movie-going experience. At Christmas or during the summer, studios unleash action-packed franchise films to audiences craving escape. Of all the… Read more »
Movie Merchandise
I still have a teddy bear and I’m not ashamed or embarrassed about this sentimental attachment. I was two years old when I got my bear. He’s a “Red Octobear”;… Read more »
The Cinema Of Transgression
The films of the American avant-garde or Underground have always functioned as a cinema of opposition, a calculated subversion of the Hollywood mainstream and the cinematic devices it employed or… Read more »
Wittgenstein, Bazin, & Godard
Reality: The world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them: “he refuses to face reality”. – Webster’s English… Read more »
At The Movies
This piece was originally written for a blog that doesn’t exist anymore. But I thought that this piece would make for a decent inaugural post for this new website. I… Read more »
