If Oscar Wilde had been a film critic, which films in this week’s top 10 might have provoked this response? “The public have always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what […]
The term “free” is relative in Iran. Let us say that Jafar Panahi is alive and out of prison. Here is the latest update at The Guardian. This is a tremendous relief to all of who love him and his work. But he has reminded the world – or at least those who pay attention […]
“Models. What they lose in apparent prominence during the shooting, they gain in depth and truth on the screen. It is the flattest and dullest parts that have in the end the most life.” – Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer
Jeff Keuss discusses the hit TV series *Lost*, including its finale, in light of Augustine’s concepts of love and creation.
The Remains of Being: Hermeneutic Ontology After Metaphysics By Santiago Zabala Columbia University Press, 2009 Zabala (Potsdam Univ.), part of a younger generation of Italian philosophers, is receiving increased attention in English-speaking philosophy largely, it seems, because of his connection to Gianni Vattimo. Building on his earlier exposition of Ernst Tugendhat in The Hermeneutic Nature […]
In this interview, Professor Andrew Bacevich discusses American exceptionalism, foreign policy, the irony of American history, and the place of war in U.S. culture.
Tron? Vertigo? Saul Bass. Goldfinger. French New Wave? Any western in particular? Kurosawa? Donnie Darko? Some cross between King Kong and Godzilla? (Thanks, Mike.)
“Cinema, as Tarkovsky has shown, has vast potential to move into the depths. Yet it uses them just as infrequently as television uses its capacities. Rarely do we see on the screen something that enriches our soul, and doesn’t pull it out onto the surface, onto the field of petty passions. Of course, art cannot […]
Farewell, The Auteurs. No big loss, though. New name – same incredible content.