Halloween Psych-Out – Part 4: A Scanner Darkly
Directed by Richard Linklater, The Waking Life (2001) uses rotoscoping—the film first shot on digital…
John Bruni
John Bruni teaches at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His book, Scientific Americans: The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-20th-Century U.S. Literature and Culture, was published by University of Wales Press in 2014. His second book, Astonishment and Recognition: Observing Systems in the Films of John Cassavetes, is under review at Fordham University Press.
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Halloween Psych-Out – Part 3: Seconds
Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of a Thin Man” (1965) memorably wrote off the established Company Man,…
Halloween Psych-Out – Part 2: Safe
The body turned inside-out evokes fear of our exposure, our vulnerability. The usual approach, in…
Halloween Psych-Out – Part 1: Marathon Man
Films that explore trauma interest me greatly. Not just because they, of course, expand the…
Re-Viewing 1980s U.S. Films – Part 7: This Is Spinal Tap/Ishtar
As we re-view the 80s it becomes rather evident that the larger the budget for…
Re-Viewing 1980s U.S. Films – Part 6: Drugstore Cowboy
William S. Burroughs stated that the title of his most (in)famous book, Naked Lunch (1959),…
Re-Viewing 1980s U.S. Films – Part 5: Swimming to Cambodia
Reagan’s Morning in America was a dream world, suggesting that even the more massive historical…
What were your favorite summer indie films?
Last week, we asked what your favorite mainstream summer movies were. This week, we look…
Re-viewing 1980s U.S. Films – Part 4: Prizzi’s Honor
The Godfather I (1972) and II (1974) served as a prelude to a string of…
Remembering William Greaves (1926-2014): Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One
When I heard that African-American filmmaker William Greaves had died last week, I wanted to…