“All These Things That I’ve Done” in Southland Tales (2006) Keva York October 2020 Pop Music in Film “I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier / I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier / I’ve got soul but I’m not a soldier…” In an American flag-festooned arcade, Justin Timberlake lip-syncs the anthemic refrain from ...
Goodbye, McFly: Crispin Glover’s ‘It’ Trilogy and the Cinema of Reaction Keva York September 2016 American Extreme In directing the taboo-themed It trilogy Crispin Hellion Glover broke away from his iconic role as George McFly in blockbuster Back to the Future (1985). In What is it? (2005) Glover’s insistence that he is n...
Challenging the Impossible: Les Blank’s Burden of Dreams Keva York March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film “You wanted to know the story of Fitzcarraldo,” Werner Herzog intones over roving shots of treetops shrouded in fog, deep in the Peruvian Amazon. “It’s a strange story, a little bit Sisyphus-like story or a sto...
