July 10, 2009 / Filmwell
David Dark (author of recently reviewed Sacredness of Questioning Everything) slapped up a clip from …
But in Filmwell terms, many of the book’s cutting edges correspond 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, or a range of stylistic terms whose Venn diagram intersection is the constructive experience of doubt, fear, and ideological shell-shock.