Issue 65 of Bright Lights Film Journal is now live.
From the Editor
Articles
Here Come the Bromides: Living in the Era of the Bromantic Comedy
"Nothing is more exhilarating than philistine vulgarity." — Vladimir Nabokov
By Joseph Aisenberg
The "Bong" Goodbye: On Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice
Will Thomas Pynchon's lightest, brightest novel put him in the Hollywood spotlight?
By John Carvill
On the Incomprehensibility of Timely Films Past Their Time: Or, A Signing Fool Watches The Singing Fool
"Not frustration of a desire of the subject, but frustration by an object in which his desire is alienated and which the more it is elaborated, the more profound the alienation from his jouissance becomes for the subject." — Lacan
By Kevin L. Ferguson
All Tomorrow's Playground Narratives: Stanley Kubrick's Lolita
"Kubrick's 1961 film is really the first 1970s movie."
By Erich Kuersten
Ghidorah Attacks! Modern Narrative's Three-Headed Monster
"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
By Quimby Melton
Art Thou Troubled? Musicals May Calm Thee
But don't forget DVD opera
By D. J. M. Saunders
In Lonely Places: Film Noir Outside the City
"Noir films with non-urban settings exploded the idea that escape into a safer or healthier world was possible, showing how temptation and violence can attack anyone, anywhere."
By Imogen Sara Smith
Actors
John Barrymore: Sweet Prince of Irony
"Isn't it extraordinary that the most popular character ever written should apparently be defeated by life instead of transcending it?" — John Barrymore on Hamlet
By Dan Callahan
Steve McQueen: Fifty Years of the King of Cool
"Steve understood real people, particularly misfits, like nobody else. It was just the Hollywood brass he loathed."
By Christopher Sandford
Directors
The Miracle Worker: An Interview with Arthur Penn
"If the system is inimical to you, then you do whatever you can to alter your relationship to the system."
By Damien Love
Columns
Bright Sights: Bardelys the Magnificent, Monte Cristo, Cleopatra, In the Realm of the Senses, Au Bonheur des Dames, Daisies, The Saragossa Manuscript
An ongoing column that looks at some of the most intriguing of recent, under-the-radar releases
By Gordon Thomas
Little Stabs of Queer Happiness (and Horror): Random Short Reviews of the Worthy and the Worthless in Recent and Old School Cinema
"A seemingly average person continually surprises and unsettles us by doing something strange and following it up with something even more spectacularly strange."
By Gary Morris
Movies
Atom Egoyan's Adoration: A Return to Form(s)?
"In classic Egoyan style, the humor is always also terrifying . . ."
By David L. Pike
Jesus Fucking Christ: Lars von Trier's Antichrist
The scandal-plagued release of Lars von Trier's latest film inspired the author, American expat in Copenhagen, to take a deeper look at the film in a Danish context.
By Jack Stevenson
Women Larger Than Life: Program Notes 2: King Vidor's Beyond the Forest and Gerd Oswald's Crime of Passion
They're not fifty feet tall, but they might as well be
By Roger McNiven
Dark Harvest: Robert Kenner's Food, Inc.
"It's not a tomato, it's the idea of a tomato."
By Lee Weston Sabo
Sleep Stalking: Jerzy Skolimowski's Four Nights with Anna
"Just like you wanted, grandma. I'm seeing a woman."
By Ian Johnston
"True Glamour Never Fades": Michael Sucsy's Grey Gardens (HBO)
"We aren't ready . . . come on in."
By Robert Ecksel
Claude Autant-Lara's The Red Inn (L'Auberge Rouge), By André Bazin
Translated and with an introduction by Bert Cardullo
Astaire Reborn! Jane Powell Gives Fred a Lift in A Royal Wedding
"I hope he knew how much the world loved him."
By Alan Vanneman
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974): The Ultimate NYC Film
"What is this New York-ness?"
By Robert Castle
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009): Inflating Pelham
"To be a star, or thought of as a star, was not enough."
By Robert Castle
Loucheness Unchecked! Universal's Pre-Code Hollywood Collection
"I'm Through!"
By Erich Kuersten
Pixar's Up: The Japanese Connection
"It's just a little less Disney."
By Lee Weston Sabo
An Atheist's Guide to Wise Blood: The Doctrine of the Auto-Redemptionist
"It's almost as if The Misfit himself were behind the camera . . ."
By Jon Lanthier
Festivals
No Transcendence: Cannes Film Festival 2009
"It's becoming more and more rare that a fresh, original film gets into the Cannes competition." — Frederic Boyer
By Karin Luisa Badt
Books
A Great Big Girl Like Me: The Films of Marie Dressler, by Victoria Sturtevant
By Matthew Kennedy
World's Coolest Movie Star: The Complete 95 Films (And Legend) of Jean Gabin, Volumes 1 and 2, by Charles Zigman
By Colin Fleming
Michael Winterbottom, by Brian McFarlane and Deane Williams
By Damon Smith
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