Issue 60 of Bright Lights Film Journal just went live.
from the editor
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Who Do You Love? Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game Reconsidered — Was Le Grande Jean too soft on the aristos?
Twenty-One Years in the Midday Sun: Revisiting Roger Ebert's Cannes — Here's lookin' at you, Roger
articles antechamber
What's Your Function? How Movies Are Made — You mean you've tried panicking?
One Culture, Two Systems: The Rules of Spanglish and Twice Upon a Time — "When talking to others, what needs to be articulated?"
Gothic Eurowesterns: A Grotesque Perspective on a Hollywood Myth — On the manifest destiny of Civil War tricksters and gun-slinging corpses
Consumerist Ultimate Indigestion: La Grand Bouffe's Deadly Physiological Pleasures — "To go to the cinema is like to eat or shit, it's a physiological act, it's urban guerrilla" — Marco Ferreri
Serpentine Evil and the Garden of Eden in DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949) — Samson, meet Adam; Delilah, meet Eve
cellar of silence
Looking at Charlie — The Circus: An Occasional Series on the Life and Work of Charlie Chaplin — Life in the ring
recent cinema roundabout
Critics Cornered: On Reviewers' Reactions to David Ayres' Street Kings — "Anyone who speaks unsanitized thought is going to lose."
the empty guest room
Fatal Instincts: The Dangerous Pout of Gloria Grahame — "I'm a girl who loves to be manhandled! After all, what are a few contusions or abrasions if you get the man you love?" — Gloria Grahame, 1953
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Birds Do It, Bees Do It: Isabella Rossellini Talks About Bug Sex, Human Sex, and Green Porno — "A laugh and information!"
From a Line of Ancestors: Talking with Doris Dörrie and Natasha Arthy — "We in the West trample on them."
A Quiet Storm: Charles Burnett on Namibia and His Post-Killer of Sheep Career — "Each film requires for me its own approach."
Man with a Movie Camera: Visiting Jonathan Caouette — "I could somehow control my own story"
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What's Up, Docs? Nonstandard Operating Procedures in Recent Documentaries, and Interviews with Patricio Henriquez and Doug Pray — "Why didn't you just stick to the truth?"
there will be blood, and more blood
Bowling for America: Robert Warshow, There Will Be Blood, and the Topography of Desire — "The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist. But the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it." — George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Human Monster: On Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood — "There are no good and bad men, there are only damaged men . . ."
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Dream Documents of Civil War: Three Films by Miklós Jancsó — "Jancsó's controlled aesthetic acts as a dissonance that vibrates expressively with scenes of violence, torture, and shame."
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Plus Ça Change: The 2008 Rendez-vous with French Cinema — Gingerly moving out of the 20th century, not quite into the 21st
bright sights
Bright Sights: Recent DVDs: Berlin Alexanderplatz, Harry Langdon: Lost and Found, Postwar Kurosawa, I Am Cuba, The Dragon Painter, The Wrath of the Gods, Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema — An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
hiding in the stacks
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, by Mark Harris
1 comments:
Great issue! I love the piece on Gloria Grahame, the TWBB articles made me want to see the movie again, and I love it when someone comes to the defense of a maligned movie like Street Kings :-)
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