Issue 55 of Bright Lights Film Journal just went live with 29 articles.
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How to Hate Titles Correctly: A Pillow Book of Incorrect Assertions — What’s in a name
Stranger and Stranger: Hitchcock and Male Envy — Beyond the queer readings of Strangers on a Train
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Welcome to the Modern World: Program Notes for a Michelangelo Antonioni-Jack Arnold Film Festival — “As much as the landscape is a character in It Came From Outer Space, it dominates Antonioni’s L’Avventura . . .”
The Peculiar Kind: The Humor of Funny Ha Ha and Mutual Appreciation — “People are constantly falling back on their beds — but always in languor, never in passion . . .”
Casablanca: The Romance of Propaganda — “Casablanca provides twenty-first-century Americans with an oasis of hope in a desert of arbitrary cruelty and senseless violence.”
Looking at Charlie: The Idle Class, Payday, The Pilgrim, and A Woman of Paris: An Occasional Series on the Art and Life of Charlie Chaplin — “Now, Goliath was a big man.”
Twin Piques: Church and Bourgeoisie in Buñuel — That Obscure Agent of Misanthropy?
Beauties and Furies: Hong Kong’s New Wave of Women Stars — “The women of To's world are not just endearingly kooky, but often unacceptably bizarre and amoral in their excited reactions to events.”
The Reckless Art of Erich von Stroheim: Part One: The Pinnacle — “Like every other skilled fabulist on earth there would forever be a part of Stroheim that truly believed his own fantasies.”
An Immovable Feast? Another Look at Henry King’s The Sun Also Rises — “It’s sort of what we have instead of God”
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Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Night Train, Edi, The Red and the White, Edgar G. Ulmer Archive, Hunger, Beyond the Rocks — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
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A Very Special Favor: More Strange Drag from the Hudson Closet — “Never mind that Hudson was a gay man playing a straight man playing a gay man in love with a man who was really a woman.”
recent cinema roundabout
Still the Same Old Story? Definitely. Ed Zwick’s Blood Diamond — When Leo met Bogy
Uneasy Lies the Head: Stephen Frears’ The Queen — “Hovering between treason and tribute . . .”
You Only Live Twice? Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale: Bond Rebottled — Forget the book, just see the movie
Dude, Where’s My Suicide Pill? Alfonso Cuarón’s The Children of Men — One virgin birth too many
Cinephilia in Turin: Davide Ferrario’s Dopo Mezzanotte (Italy, 2004) — Passion in a handful of dust
Robert DeNiro at Yale again! The Good Shepherd: Poor little lamb! — Hey! How did we win the Cold War, anyway?
One Small Step for a Penguin: George Miller’s Happy Feet — Getting down way down under
Note for a “Round the Way Girl”: Craig Brewer’s Hustle & Flow — “In Hustle, we can appreciate Nola’s yearning to be more than a pimp’s pussy cash box . . .”
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A Legacy Slight but Substantial: Fabián Bielinsky’s Nine Queens and The Aura — “Who are you? Where do you come from?”
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Inherit the Wind: Talking with Peter Bogdanovich and Joseph McBride About The Other Side of the Wind — Life with the restless ghost of Orson Welles’ last movie
The Accidental Auteur: A Dialogue with Abbas Kiarostami — “The fruitful tree bends.”
Spirit in the Dark: Barbara Kopple on Filming the Group That Wouldn’t Shut Up & Sing — “Just put your sneakers on and go. Go on the journey.”
Reflecting the Theoretical Beyond: The Quay Brothers Talk About Art, Life, and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes — “It’s hard to be intuitive when you’ve got 42 crew behind you and they’re like, ‘Look, they don’t know what to do here. They’re panicking, look at them!’”
Caveh Zahedi’s PSA: Talking with the Auteur of I Am a Sex Addict — “Not only is it personal — it’s downright embarrassing.”
film festival flying buttress
Dragons, Tigers, and Citizen Rayns: The 25th Vancouver International Film Festival — Asian cinema triumphs in this year’s D&T, Tony Rayns's last
cornucopia corner
Little Stabs of Happiness and Horror: Random Short Reviews of the Worthy and the Worthless in Recent and Old-School Cinema — “I just want to hear ‘I love you’ instead of ‘Take it you tight little snatch!’”
revival room
Through the Looking Glass: Thoughts on The Window — Ted Tetzlaff brings Bobby Driscoll to the voyeur’s front window
1 comments:
I've read several of the articles now and especially enjoyed Andrew Grossman's piece on movie names. I never realized there was so much to think about on this subject. I take issue with some of Alan Vanneman's opinions (like most people!) but always enjoy reading him for his wit. Keep up the good work.
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