Meaning is the MacGuffin
Joel GunzBiweekly reports on the search for the sublime in pop culture.
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The Strange Magic of Alfred Hitchcock
The magic of cinema: trite as it is, the phrase is also profoundly true—and it’s not only because movies bring flat images to life before our eyes. A well-made film can even coax us out of our bodies to magically enter its world. It’s not f...
Gnosticism, A.I. and Steven Spielberg's "A.I."
After two-and-a-half decades of thinking about the possibilities of cinema, filmmaker Jean Epstein concluded that its machinery possessed an almost occult power that even today we have yet to fully reckon with. In the preface to his 1946 bo...
The Robot, the Camera and the Blue Fairy: Spielberg's "A.I. Artificial Intelligence" and Pure Cinema
The Blue Fairy from A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).
Note: This week, join , and me for a two-night watch party and discussion of Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Tuesday & Thursday, June 23 & 25. Details and signup....
Hitchcock and Lynch: A Bridge Between Worlds
David Lynch’s movies carry on a kind of cosmic conversation with those of his fellow filmmaker and metaphysician Alfred Hitchcock. Much of the pleasure I derive from their films comes from spotting and contemplating these connections. Blue...
Of Angels and The Stylistics, Part 2
Image credits: Orpheus and Eurydice (1826), Carl Goos; disco ball, Adobe Stock.
Read Part One of this two-part series.
THIS PAST Christmas Eve, while walking home from a late and heavy dinner, Christy and I stumbled into an evening...
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