n+1 magazine has periodically published the kind of film criticism that meets the catchy, thoughtful standard of the magazine. (Such as this excellent review of two recent books on Cahiers du Cinema/the French New Wave.) It looks like they will now be publishing a section dedicated to film criticism on a more regular basis. They […]
In a recent interview about her latest book, Marilynne Robinson began with the following few ideas: In Absence of Mind, your main argument is that the influential popular scientist-writers of our age (Wilson, Dennett, Dawkins, Pinker, et al.) fail to acknowledge the spiritual impulses, conscience, compassion, and other felt experiences, via the human mind, that […]
Ken Morefield has posted a call for papers for a follow-up volume to the excellent Faith and Spirituality in Masters of World Cinema collection. This may be a great spot for that paper outline I have hanging around about a trauma theory approach to spirituality and memory in Resnais’ Night and Fog and Hiroshima. Both […]
Farewell, The Auteurs. No big loss, though. New name – same incredible content.
See how tough this gets?
Le regle du jou has posted a statement from Jafar Panahi declaring that he is on a hunger strike in protest of his current imprisonment: I hereby declare that I have been subject to ill treatment in Evin prison. On Saturday May 15, 2010, prison guards suddenly entered our cell, n° 56. They took us […]
Over at Extravagant Creation, Michael McIntyre has a very interesting post interacting with responses to Bird’s somewhat recent book on Tarkovsky. McIntyre is a great resource for Tarkovsky scholarship, and is often interested in the lack of well-reasoned religious response to his films, asking this time around: Where can one find books or articles that […]
“Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth when you pretend to be other people.”
“To dwell is to garden.” (Heidegger, “The Origin of the work of Art”) And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of […]