Detroit
“Nervous breakdowns/Crowd the calendar of freedom/When reality is forced upon the nonbeliever’s ego plan/Criticizers/From the hanging cliffs of plenty/Laugh to see the fall of those/Who would remain in honest lands/Clairvoyants… Read more »
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner (1982) has gotten a sequel. Anyone who has seen Ridley Scott’s film is probably wondering why or even how a sequel could have been made. Oddly, Blade Runner… Read more »
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Lady Bird (2017), is the “hip” ticket this holiday season. Like Wonder Woman (2017) in the spring, Lady Bird suits the zeitgeist; though in many respects… Read more »
On Dangerous Ground
Almost all of Nicholas Ray’s films deal with a protagonist whose behavior isolates themselves within their society. Ray implements these concerns fluidly in his screen adaptation of Gerald Butler’s Mad… Read more »
The Beguiled
When I saw Sofia Coppola’s latest film The Beguiled (2017) at the County Theater in Doylestown I was actually really surprised by it. I know it really wasn’t very much… Read more »
Der Tod der Maria Malibran
“The cinema of postmodernity suggests a society no longer able to believe fully its received myths (the law of the father, the essential goodness of capitalism, the state, religious authority,… Read more »
Mandy
There are some films that offer us fantasies whose close correlation with our own emotional life allows them to take on an urgency that we, as an audience, are often… 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 »
