Not the “silence” of silent cinema, but the real silence of being suddenly alone in a place that had seemed full of life, and now is so empty as to be unbearable.
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The Positive is Invisible
On a few lines from an antifascist novel about two political prisoners of the fictional state of Molussia.
The Rare Noir
On glimpsing some fragment of the true shape of things, as through a glass, and darkly.
On Zack Snyder’s Justice League
The reality is that a movie like this has never been made before and will never be made again. Let’s talk about it.
Predictions for the Bidenzeit
At the risk of appearing to invest too much importance in who the Lord of the American estate happens to be at any particular time, here are a few predictions for what the next four years will be like.
The Haunted Palace (1963)
An existence trapped between life and death, degenerating with each successive lap
Rancho Notorious (1952)
“She’s right there on the floor right in front of you and she’s got blue, blue eyes, you feel ‘em staring at you?”
The Man and the Curtain
You are helpless. You cannot trust the ground under your feet or the roof over your head. Your death could be around any corner.
Poverty Row & Old Hollywood Metaphysics
I’ve been watching a lot of Poverty Row movies lately, and a lot of b-movies from the ‘50s and early ‘60s. John H. Auer, Edward D. Wood, Jr., Edgar G. Ulmer, directors of that nature.
Will and Negation: Notes on the Ending of Twilight: Breaking Dawn
The ostensible climax of Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (and, by extension, of the entire Twilight franchise) is arguably the most common for Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking today: a large-scale battle on a big field between two groups roughly approximating “good” and “evil.” Despite this, it is also one of the most utterly strange, singularContinue reading “Will and Negation: Notes on the Ending of Twilight: Breaking Dawn”
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