Year of the Month: Under the Influence of Cassavetes – MARGOT AT THE WEDDING
With the news that John Cassavetes’s Husbands (perhaps my all-time favorite film) is getting the…
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.
Articles:
The Year in Review: The Power of Negative Thinking
While class issues became even more prominent in 2019 than they were a year before,…
Year of the Month: Notes on THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
I. Directed and co-written by Gillo Pontecorvo, the representation of the Algerian fight for independence…
Year of the Month: “Well by Seventy-Six We’ll Be A-OK” – The Cool Retro-Future of THE NIGHTFLY
Conspicuously absent from the first post-Steely Dan release from Donald Fagen is the cutting mockery…
Year of the Month: Randy Newman, GOOD OLD BOYS and the Southern Political Legacy
Although my top-10 records list is constantly changing, Good Old Boys will always have a…
Year of the Month: CRAZY HEART and Walking Hard
To properly contextualize Crazy Heart, we have to go back two years. In 2007, Walk…
Year of the Month: The Cultural Work of ALL THE KING’S MEN
I’m very interested in the cultural work films do, that is, how the conditions of…
Year of the Month: Watching THE NEW AGE from the Point of No Return
There may be no better time to rediscover The New Age. It takes dead aim…
A Star Is Torn: HER SMELL Takes Us on a Wild Ride
Written and directed by Alex Ross Perry, Her Smell is a uniquely fictionalized take on…
Year of the Month: In Glorious Mono, ONLY THE LONELY
In October of last year, Only the Lonely was reissued in a 60th anniversary stereo…