Ugly duckling
I have a blog post about Splice, the new science fiction movie about baby-sitting, over at The Paris Review.
View ArticleTraumdeutung at the movies
Over at the Paris Review, I synthesize my quack science-fiction criticism and my recent reading of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams into a blog post about Christopher Nolan’s new movie Inception. Left...
View ArticleNot being there
Over at the Paris Review Daily, I argue that in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, capital dreams of abusing itself.
View ArticleI’m introducing “Paprika” on Friday at the Rubin Museum
I'm going to be introducing Paprika, Satoshi Kon's anime movie about a team of therapists who have discovered a technology that enables them to enter their patients' dreams, this Friday, March 4, at...
View ArticleAn introduction to “Paprika”
[The Rubin Museum of Art asked me to introduce the movie Paprika on March 4, 2011, one of a series of dream-themed films that the museum is showing this month. Here's what I had to say.] Paprika, the...
View ArticleNot-too-realness
Over at the Paris Review Daily, I ruminate on Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Contagion.
View ArticleAnother thing that occurred to me while watching “Rise of the Planet of the...
Being intelligent inside an ape is like being human inside a car. You’re saddled with a prognathous mask for a face. You’re incapable of words and must resort to loud, alarming noises. Your every...
View ArticleStarring Justin Timberlake as the Labor Theory of Value
Over at the Paris Review Daily, I consider the Marxian principles in the new Andrew Niccol movie In Time.
View Article“Young and Innocent” (Alfred Hitchcock, dir.; 1937)
The movie begins in the sordid state of marriage; it ends in the sweet first blush of introducing the beau to papa; and these and all other states of being are conveyed to the viewer with formidable...
View ArticleBrooklyn Botanical Garden
On June 4, with a Minolta X-700, on Kodak Portra 400 film. It turns out that on this film the red of blooming roses comes across as a little radiological.
View ArticleTraumdeutung at the movies
Over at the Paris Review, I synthesize my quack science-fiction criticism and my recent reading of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams into a blog post about Christopher Nolan’s new movie Inception. Left...
View ArticleNot being there
Over at the Paris Review Daily, I argue that in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, capital dreams of abusing itself.
View ArticleI’m introducing “Paprika” on Friday at the Rubin Museum
I'm going to be introducing Paprika, Satoshi Kon's anime movie about a team of therapists who have discovered a technology that enables them to enter their patients' dreams, this Friday, March 4, at...
View ArticleAn introduction to “Paprika”
[The Rubin Museum of Art asked me to introduce the movie Paprika on March 4, 2011, one of a series of dream-themed films that the museum is showing this month. Here's what I had to say.] Paprika, the...
View ArticleNot-too-realness
Over at the Paris Review Daily, I ruminate on Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Contagion.
View ArticleAnother thing that occurred to me while watching “Rise of the Planet of the...
Being intelligent inside an ape is like being human inside a car. You’re saddled with a prognathous mask for a face. You’re incapable of words and must resort to loud, alarming noises. Your every...
View ArticleStarring Justin Timberlake as the Labor Theory of Value
Over at the Paris Review Daily, I consider the Marxian principles in the new Andrew Niccol movie In Time.
View Article“Young and Innocent” (Alfred Hitchcock, dir.; 1937)
The movie begins in the sordid state of marriage; it ends in the sweet first blush of introducing the beau to papa; and these and all other states of being are conveyed to the viewer with formidable...
View ArticleBrooklyn Botanical Garden
On June 4, with a Minolta X-700, on Kodak Portra 400 film. It turns out that on this film the red of blooming roses comes across as a little radiological.
View ArticleTime to Let Go
Also available as an issue of my newsletter, Leaflet Top Gun: Maverick opens with Tom Cruise sitting in a chair, out of character. He thanks the audience for leaving their homes to experience the movie...
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