Not the Same Old Song and Dance
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- *From the Chicago Reader (November 27, 1998), and reprinted in my
collection Essential Cinema and on the BFI Blu-ray of the film. In his **audi...
The Best Movie Discoveries of 2019: Books on Movies
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In the first of my Best Discoveries of 2019 post, I share with you my
favorite books on movies that I read this year (not necessarily published
in 2019). P...
Review | Queen & Slim | 2019
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Jodie Turner-Smith as Queen in Queen & Slim, directed by Melina Matsoukas.
Photo by Andre D. Wagner. (c) 2019 Universal Pictures. All Rights Reserved.Few
...
Ideological Becoming
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As a sanity-saving measure, and because I work in a profession that
provides me the space to do this,
I have dedicated the last decade to archiving import...
Torino tour of world cinema
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Synonymes (2019). Kristin here: After visiting museums on the one free day
we allowed ourselves in Turin before the festival began, we launched into
viewin...
One At A Time
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With Martin Scorsese’s THE IRISHMAN fresh on the brain, it’s impossible not
to think of certain other late films by great directors which feel like
summa...
Photo Diary - November 2019
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For the month of November, I carried the Holga-135 camera loaded with Lomography
Color Negative 400 35mm film. The camera has a plastic lens, so the photo...
Criminal: The Threat
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Look for Ed Brubaker's newest CRIMINAL in which I write about Felix E.
Feist's The Threat starring the great Charles McGraw, who, as Red is so
intense, so ...
Natural Born Killers
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The 1990s was a time when hard news intersected with tabloid journalism
pushing popular culture into new, salacious directions as nobodies like the
Menen...
Olivia
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Jacqueline Audry - 1951 Icarus Home Video BD Region A I have not read the
source novel written by Dorothy Bussy, published in 1949. But what I have
read of...
CINEMATIC GRATITUDE v.2019
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During a year in which the world finds itself increasingly in the throes of
totalitarianism and corruption, when institutions, traditions and good old
co...
Box Office First Look
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I’m getting back into this habit… but a little uninspired so far. Frozen 2
opened in the same slot as Frozen did, though the first time around, it
opened...
New Chapter in Wireless History
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Source: ‘A Wireless Correspondent’, ‘New Chapter in Wireless History’,
Sheffield Daily Telegraph, p. 5 Text: NEW CHAPTER IN WIRELESS HISTORY.
Television De...
Robert Markley on Kim Stanley Robinson
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The University of Illinois Press’ series Modern Masters of Science Fiction
continues to provide the gold standard for recent science fiction
criticism. I h...
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APPLE ON THE MANTLE
by Craig Keller
A WOMAN OF TOKYO (TŌKYŌ NO ONNA, 1933)
A new iteration of a diseased world has wafted up and come to choke,
...
Semi-Permanent Sydney 2019 (2019)
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[image: Semi-Permanent Sydney 2019]
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" wrote English poet John Keats in 1819.
"That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need...
Discussing THE DEVILS (1971) with Kevin Flanagan
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Kevin M. Flanagan received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in
2015 in English/Film studies (his dissertation: The British War Film,
1939-1980: ...
Best Films of the 2010s
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1. The Social Network
2. *The Irishman*
*3. **12 Years A Slave*
*4. **Roma *
*5. Carol*
*6. **C**all Me By Your Name *
*7. **Inception*
*8. **Amour*
*9. *...
Teaching the History of Film Craft (pt. 7)
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*Teaching the History of Film Craft:*
*Syllabi*
Last in a series of posts about teaching the history of below-the-line film
artists (cinematographers, sou...
The Power of the Veiling Technique in Film
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The Power of the Veiling Technique in Film There is a technique called
Veiling, sometimes it’s connected to flairing or an actual object -a veil
of some so...
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood
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Twice I’ve watched Tarantino’s *Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood* and been
underwhelmed as it unspooled, and each time I had a warmer feeling
afterwards. Of...
How Deeply Deceptive? Dealing with the Deepfake.
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Suddenly, the realistic but concocted moving images known as “deep fakes”
are very much in the news. Those are versions of existing footage that has
been j...
The Big Clock (1948, John Farrow)
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Not all film noir takes place in a seedy underworld; sometimes noir
arrives on the commuter train wearing a custom-made suit. So it goes with
John Far...
SUN BLOOD STORIES: "ALL THE WORDS IN MEANING"
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Not only has the vinyl arrived for the much-anticipated Sun Blood Stories
September release of "Haunt Yourself", but the searing second video for the
alb...
I Wake Up Streaming – August 2019
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Small Screen Noir and Neo-Noir The history of television is full of great
crime shows, from Dragnet to Hill Street Blues to Homicide: Life on the
Street ...
SOLEDAD (Volume One) Now Available
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The premiere issue of my brand new arts journal, SOLEDAD, is now available
on Amazon or at Nostalgia Kinky. I’ve been working, mostly in secret, on
this ...
My Literary Year in Review, 2018
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Here’s a look at the books I read in 2018 (as well as the audiobooks I
listened to). Favorites are starred: Children of Time, Adrian Tchaikovsky
(2015) *Th...
Ten Festive Treats from Film Studies For Free!
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1. FATED TO BE MATED: An Architectural Promenade from Catherine Grant on
Vimeo. As discussed in "Screen studies as device?: Working through the
video essa...
A Farewell to Ferdy
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By Roderick Heath Long ago, in the dimly-remembered time of legend and
chivalry that was 2006, my friend Marilyn Ferdinand asked me if I wanted to
contribu...
Cinema in the Digital Age, Revised
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A revised, updated edition of Cinema in the Digital Age (Columbia
University Press) is now alive and kicking in the world.
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/ci...
Links
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So it should be obvious from a cursory look that this site isn't really
updated anymore but I am still writing around the internet so here are
links to my ...
New Reviews at the Lens
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[image: The Final Year]
[image: Phantom Thread]
[image: Call Me by Your Name]
[image: The Shape of Water]
[image: The Disaster Artist]
[image: Justice League...
The Top 255 Movies Of 2017
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Why pick? Here is everything I saw in 2017. Titles in bold were seen
theatrically. 1. NORTH BY NORTHWEST. Dir. Alfred Hitchock 2. CAMERAPERSON
Dir. Kirsten...
It’s a Roald Dahl World After All
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From Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to Fantastic Mr. Fox and Matilda
to The Witches, beloved British author Roald Dahl’s tales of eccentrics,
rebels...
End Credits
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Dear Out 1 Film Journal Readers of the Past, Present, and Future,
How have you all been? I write you today what will be the final post here
at Out 1 Fil...
Go Make a Movie
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*The late great Chantal Akerman*
Everything is bad.
The inhumanity of money is killing the world. It is killing the rainforest,
it is killing the Middle ...
A Test of Faith
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Faith is a virtue that can help us get through some difficult times in our
lives. But what happens when our faith seems to come up short in a critical
s...
Screenwriting 101: Wentworth Miller
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“The one question I will ask myself as I’m re-reading a script for the 60th
time is, ‘Am I entertained? Still?’ If the answer is ‘yes,’ I’ll assume
other p...
10 Fascinating Sports Documentaries
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Inspired by the O.J. Made in America documentary from ESPN, here is a quick
article I wrote for Mental Floss, “10 Fascinating Sports Documentaries.”
They r...
Memories of Edward Copeland
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For a time at my home blog, *Thrilling Days of Yesteryear*, I meticulously
documented the passings of people in the entertainment industry in the form
of...
DEMOLITION (#TIFF15 Review)
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The nuances in DEMOLITION allow for it to rise above its overtly symbolic
nature. And Jake Gyllenhaal catches all of that nuance and delivers it to
us with...
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