Bright Lights Film Journal #59 just went live with 24 articles.
from the editor
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The Double Standard: The Twins of Two-Faced Woman and Sylvia Scarlett — "She is both sentimental and shameless."
Peter Watkins and the Politics of Expression: On Edvard Munch (1974) and The Freethinker (1994) — "Watkins' filmmaking bravely seeks an insistence on personal truth — his own and the viewer's."
False Consonances and False Consciousness: Contrarian Notes on the Ideology of Film Music — "Defenseless against music, I must submit to its despotism and, depending on its whim, be god or garbage." — E. M. Cioran
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Naomi Watts: Cinema's Postmodern Mother of Mirrors — "We're home free in the new mediated womb of the Naomi persona — which is to say, trapped, by our own desire."
Only the Pictures: We’re All Editing, Ed — But about this audit
Hillbilly Hustle: The Thin Line Between Hillybilly Sexploitation and Blaxploitation in Trash Cinema — "How you gonna keep um' down on the farm after they seen all this?" — voiceover from the trailer for the 1972 sexploitation film Sassy Sue
Wes's World: Riding Wes Anderson's Vision Limited — Paging crackle, energy, and wit. Come in, please.
Presence and Absence: Towards a Working Conception of Screen Characters — "A basic consistency on the actor's part remains uniquely convincing as character, no matter how simplistic that character's definition."
little stabs
Little Stabs of Happiness (and Horror): Random Short Reviews of the Worthy and the Worthless in Recent and Old-School Cinema — "Don't snatch! Don't grab! They're ugly!"
recent cinema roundabout
Stunted Lives: On 4 Months, 3 Weeks, & 2 Days — Unsettling and unmissable
A Boy and His Dog: On Will Smith, Apocalypse, and I Am Legend — "Neville remains wholly oblivious, falling into each trap the ferals set . . ."
When Virtue Sleeps: The Moral World of Denys Arcand's L'Âge des Ténèbres — "We are asked to think morally: is the happiness these characters seek possible or desirable?"
The Foxy, the Dead, and the Foxier: Re-Visiting Death Proof — "He's old enough to be my dad!"
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Rebel, Rebel: Gregg Araki Reflects on The Living End and His Totally F***ed Up Career at Sundance 2008 — "My whole thing, all my life, was march to your own drummer."
the empty guest room
On the Walkabout: Remembering Heath Ledger (1979-2008) — "Wasn't he just there, standing right in front of us?"
Nuts to the Squirrels and Roués Redeemed: The Discreet Charm of Charles Boyer — "In Boyer, self-belief and theatrical technique are seamlessly fused together."
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Innocence Lost or Regained? The Clear-Eyed Vision of Jesus Camp — "Real things happening to real people"
film festival flying buttress
Onward and Inward: On the 2007 Thessaloniki International Film Festival — "Each work limns a moral dilemma that has no discernible answer."
Tickets to the Dark Side: The 43rd Chicago International Film Festival — "We will see whose heart is sharpest!"
revival room
Downward Mobility: On Roger Corman's Bloody Mama — "You never could make a decent living . . . you never did mount me proper."
Communication Breakdown: Reboarding Jim Jarmusch's Mystery Train — "You only need one leg to get around. Sure helps to have two."
Thank God for Uncle Tom: Race and Religion Collide in The Green Pastures — A kinder, gentler condescension
Ode to Lili: And Leslie Caron — "This MGM movie is studio-system filmmaking at its most protective, and it's designed entirely to showcase Leslie Caron . . ."
bright sights
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Our Hitler, Sawdust and Tinsel, Black Sun, Marketa Lazarova, Battleship Potemkin, Nosferatu, Automatons — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
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