A Reflection
One need not be a psychologist or a semiotician to recognize that the destruction of the World Trade Center's arrogant Twin Towers was a symbolic castration, annihilating the world's most widely known symbol of...
Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead
The Godardian entanglement of desire, cars, death and narrative, especially in Contempt.
Report on the 4th Bermuda International Film Festival
(April 20-26 2001)
www.bermudafilmfest.com
Quite apart from the movies it presented, the 4th annual Bermuda International Film Festival had one attraction no other such event can offer: Bermuda itself...
Taste of Kiarostami
The fact that Kiarostami likes The Godfather is not the only interesting thing we learn from this revealing interview.
Renaldo & Clara Meet John Cage: Aleatory Cinema and the Aesthetics of Incompetence
This paper was presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference 2000 at the Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago on March 11, 2000, as part of the panel I2: Giving Hollywood the Slip(page): The Carnivalesque...
Permanent Ghosts: Cinephilia in the Age of the Internet and Video – Essay 3
"Cinephilia" has become a surprisingly common term, spanning the generation range from Susan Sontag to Steve Erickson, and while I have no objections to it, I'm not sure it captures my own relationship to the w...