Mad Men grasped for an ending and didn’t find one (but that’s good!)
Category: Grab Bag
Why Don’t the Droids in Star Wars Have Rights?
How much personality and autonomy do you need to have a right to your memories?
Eighty Years of King Kong: Spectacle or Story?
On good days I consider “Citizen Kane” the seminal film of the sound era, but on bad days it is “King Kong.” That is not to say I dislike “King Kong,” which, in this age of technical perfection, uses its very naivete to generate a kind of creepy awe. It’s simply to observe that this… Continue reading Eighty Years of King Kong: Spectacle or Story?
TCM Classic Film Festival 2017
Friend of the blog Brian Russell discusses his experience watching a bunch of old films with a bunch of new friends.
Isolation and Sex Tie these Two 1964 Japanese Films Together
This article contains major spoilers for Onibaba (1964) and Woman in the Dunes (1964). This weekend Liza (who has contributed to this blog) and I sat down to watch a movie. We aimlessly scrolled through the seemingly endless options our streaming services presented. We ended up on FilmStruck (essentially Netflix for the Criterion Collection) where… Continue reading Isolation and Sex Tie these Two 1964 Japanese Films Together
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