“Clearly you are not a bowler”: Can film do philosophy? Can philosophy do film?
Continue reading...On Film, Movies, Cinema
Uncertain reflections on the Coen Brothers’ misanthropy
Reflection on David Denby’s critique of the Coen brothers’ consistent misanthropy
Continue reading...“Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1959), Part 1
Bodies impersonal but affective are instruments of memory.
Continue reading...“Pépé le Moko” (1937): Failure to Escape
Comments on the 1936 film Pépé le Moko, starring Jean Gabin, and set in the Casbah
Continue reading...Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” (1954): Murder as Fantasy, Sex as Violence
Rear Window appears a murder mystery in which Jeff and Lisa play amateur sleuths. In truth, the film is a fantasy about the strange gravity between sex and murder.
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