Carnaval Cinematica: Between Film Festivals
it has been an incredibly rich semester for film at brown. in addition to providence’s beloved french film festival (run by richard manning and the amazing people over at the mcm department) there has...
View ArticleThis Week In Film Theory: Sergei Eisenstein
i’ve been taking an outstanding film theory class with phil rosen this semester. rosen, it tuns out, is kind of the reigning critical perspective on the authors we are reading: eisenstein, bazin,...
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Notes on a DVD
I have long believed that film students and critics need a real (or reel if you will excuse the pun) tool for critically annotating film. Now that DVD technology has advanced enough, I imagined a...
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the tastemaker’s broadcast #1
the five coolest things from last week this is rundown of the coolest things i came across last week. it includes a remix, a video game, two trailers, and an essay. i am going to try to do this more...
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the victorian parkour cinema spectacular: re-inventing sherlock holmes
he's still pale and pasty, but sherlock 2.0 boxes, parkours, and takes his shirt off. scholarship on sherlock holmes has always been preoccupied with two themes: the question of the sleuth sexuality...
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New Cinematic Depth: Avatar & The End of the Image
If Avatar has changed anything about then movies, then it has changed everything. Let’s begin by considering what depth means to cinema. Historically, depth has only existed as a perspective, the idea...
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Parnassus: Terry Gilliam as the Last Surrealist
Terry Gilliam is the last surrealist. His latest film, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, confirms such an assertion with its dazzling and disorienting visual effects. In “the imaginarium” Dr....
View Articlereviving the kino-eye
i will off to ireland it just a few days to shoot a documentary on gaelic games. the documentary is sponsored by an at&t “new media” fellowship and was organized by the watson institute at brown....
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