Susan Sontag and the Making of Souls
The number of film critics who have indelibly shaped my understanding of the cinema is relatively small, perhaps a half dozen, maybe a dozen at the most. Susan Sontag is chief among them, although I’ve never thought of her as a critic per se. During a youth spent at academic institutions in Berkeley, Chicago, Cambridge (MA), Oxford, Paris, and New York, she was trained as a philosopher and thought and wrote like one. And like a philosopher, Sontag had a precise intellectual... Read More
Canary and Its Imagination of Disaster
Unless you either caught it at this year’s Cinequest or are planning to attend the upcoming Migrating Forms, I don’t think your chances of catching Alejandro Adams’ latest film, Canary, are very good. But I hope it secures the distribution it deserves. Set in a near-future science-fiction, Canary trails a repossession agent (the bewitchingly ghostly Carla Pauli) of a corporation that leases organs to clients. When clients fail to keep up with the contracted exercise and... Read More
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