Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009)
“She refers to a phenomenon of moviegoing which I have called certification. Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and the emptiness which is inside him will expand until it evacuates the entire neighborhood. But if he sees a movie which shows his very neighborhood, it becomes possible for him to live, for a time at least, as a person who is Somewhere and not Anywhere.” (Walker... Read More
JJ Abrams On (only kind of) Not Cheating the Mystery
“We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” - Douglas Adams This is a short post today, but next week I will be reviewing David Dark’s latest book, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, as some of its incisive thought forms relate to all those moments in which the cinema becomes a storied means of self-critique or unexpectedly shifts the brackets of our cherished assumptions. We tend to shorthand these experiences as transcendental, or expressionist,... Read More
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