(Ed. Note: Originally published at Film-Think.) “According to a new gospel of ugliness, there is already more Junkspace under construction in the 21st century than survived from the 20th…” “God is dead, the author is dead, history is dead, only the architect is left standing.” – Rem Koolhaas Junkspace, a term coined by architect Rem Koolhaas, […]
(Ed. Note: Originally published at The Matthew’s House Project) “When the child was a child, it walked with his arms swinging. It wanted the stream to be a river, the river a torrent, and this puddle to be a sea. When the child was a child, it didn’t know it was a child. Everything was full […]
(Ed. Note: Originally published at The Matthew’s House Project.) There is a gaunt literary cliché that perfectly describes the state of what can only problematically be described as “Christian film criticism”: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. For lack of a better term, self-professed Christians have been writing film […]
(Ed. Note: This was originally published at Image Facts.) A History of Cronenberg Cronenberg is as much an aesthetic brand as Lynch or Julie Taymor. Directors such as these often move from genre to genre, but they always leave their particular traces on whatever films they are making. There are always a few dusty corners in […]