cinema

C. D. Rose’s ‘Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea’ Plays Familiar Games with Time

C. D. Rose’s ‘Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea’ Plays Familiar Games with Time

Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea plays with postmodernism, autofiction, philosophy, and a short story canon peopled by writers from Augustine to Raymond Carver.

Populism as High Art: Getting to the Heart of Ishiro Honda

Populism as High Art: Getting to the Heart of Ishiro Honda

A new biography of the groundbreaking -- yet unassuming -- film director explores his multifaceted life and work.

Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Le Samouraï’ Plays with the Perils of the Loner

Jean-Pierre Melville’s ‘Le Samouraï’ Plays with the Perils of the Loner

Under the lens of cultural and historical context, as well as understanding the reflective nature of popular culture, it's hard not to read this film as a cautionary tale about the limitations of isolationism.

In Defense of Going to the Movies

Cinema as Rorschach Test: ‘The Master’

Cinema, Cinema: Manic Children & the Slow Aggrssion

The Bombay Royale: You Me Bullets Love

Untimely Cinema: ‘“Our Kind of Movie” The Films of Andy Warhol’

Don’t Feel You Have to Die for ‘Inception and Philosophy: Ideas to Die For’

Quentin Tarantino’s Cinematic Reality

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures