Tag Archives: Film

The Dark Crystal (1982)

A piece I wrote for A Bright Wall in a Dark Room: Wherein being a Gelfling doppelgänger isn’t necessarily a bad thing When Chad asked if we’d be interested in writing about one of our favorite childhood movies, this one was kind of a no-brainer for a number of reasons. One reason is that I used [...]
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Amadeus (1984)

Originally posted on Filmosophy. Milos Forman’s Ma Non Troppo Vivace Although Amadeus isn’t ostensibly a holiday movie, I can’t seem to pass through this time of year without an urge to settle in with a hot chocolate and watch it.  I remember first seeing this film with my mother when I was very young at a small theater [...]
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Donnie Darko (2001)

Written for Filmosophy: SOMETIMES THE SEARCH IS ALL WE HAVE TO KEEP US GOING The experience of trying to decipher Donnie Darko is kind of like buying an old, dusty jigsaw puzzle at a yard sale and then trying to assemble it, only to realize that you may not have all the pieces to complete the picture, [...]
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Kubrick on film

“A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.” — Stanley Kubrick I think this is an interesting quote by Kubrick and representative of how his films irrevocably changed the relationship between [...]
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Wings of Desire

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin, dir. Wim Wenders, 1987)
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Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in, 2008)

ARE YOU SO SURE THAT I WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND? A new piece I wrote for Filmosophy. Modern pop culture’s romanticism and vilification of vampires in fiction is primarily attributable to a 15th century Romanian Prince, Vlad III the Impaler, also known as Dracula. Bram Stoker’s famous novel, written in 1897, was inspired by Southern Slavic vampiric folklore [...]
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Symbols

I finally got around to watching the movie Michael Clayton. In the beginning of the movie, George Clooney’s character gets out of his car because he sees three horses in the distance standing together on a hill. They seem to recall something inconceivable to him: an illustration from a book that his colleague [...]
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Where the Wild Things Are

I know I’m not the only one who is excited to see this film. For the hardcore fanatics, there is now a free Where the Wild Things Are iPhone Application. On a related note, this is a pretty amazing effort at a fairly uncoverable song. Smoky and sleepy, like waking between the sheets, lazing in [...]
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