Film

The Interview’s False Choices

Popular Fictions Peter Kim - January 14, 2015 0

Now that the The Interview has been released in limited theaters and on “pay-per-Youtube,” as well as enabled the questionable Margaret Cho yellowface skit...

The One That Got Away: On Inherent Vice

Bodies and Minds Evan Kindley - January 12, 2015 6

“Doc stroked his chin and gazed off into space for a while. ‘You know how some people say they have a ‘gut feeling’? Well, Shasta...

Grief, Investigation, and Mulholland Dr.

Bodies and Minds Lisa Beskin - September 11, 2014 5

A month or so after my mother’s death in 2001, I found myself in an awkward situation involving David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr. I had...

Zero Point Breaky

Popular Fictions Catherine Zimmer - February 7, 2013 4

For probably dubious reasons, I find myself compelled to rehearse a feeble defense of Zero Dark Thirty (read: a defense of Kathryn Bigelow, director...

Come on, compadre. Come on!

Bodies and Minds Claire Jarvis - January 8, 2013 7

There is absolutely nothing about Point Break that is not wonderful. Even the bad parts (there are no bad parts). You can watch this movie...

Oeuvre and Me

Bodies and Minds Catherine Zimmer - September 25, 2012 9

I have always avoided the idea of the “auteur” in film studies—that treatment of certain directors as the structural equivalents of great novelists. Auteur...

The Interview’s False Choices

The One That Got Away: On Inherent Vice

Grief, Investigation, and Mulholland Dr.

Zero Point Breaky

Come on, compadre. Come on!

Oeuvre and Me

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Key Limes: Amy

No One Likes Meg

The Thing About Beth

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