So far in our Third Floor Film Series we’ve watched Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo, the groundbreaking 1967 Bonnie and Clyde directed by Arthur Penn, and Elia Kazan’s steaming… Read more “To Be Good Is Not Enough: Falling Short of Genius in Five Easy Pieces”
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Tick-tick In the Drifting Dark: The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang
More than anything else, Mary Jo Bang’s newest volume of poetry – The Last Two Seconds from Graywolf Press – is concerned with time. Not chronological time, but… Read more “Tick-tick In the Drifting Dark: The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang”
A Review Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events by Carl Rollyson
Over half a century after her untimely death at age thirty-six Marilyn Monroe still captivates screen audiences and intrigues the curious. Who – and what – was… Read more “A Review Marilyn Monroe Day by Day: A Timeline of People, Places, and Events by Carl Rollyson”
Stories We Tell (2012)
This week I finally had the chance to catch up with Sarah Polley’s moving documentary Stories We Tell, and it has edged vampires onto the back burner.… Read more “Stories We Tell (2012)”
Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)
If I could have more of any one commodity it would be time. If I could have a superpower it would be to only need one hour… Read more “Only Lovers Left Alive (2014)”
Steampunk Manners: Prudence by Gail Carriger
If you crossed a Jane Austen novel with a Stephen King novel and cast Zooey Deschanel in the movie adaptation, you’d be close to imaginingGail Carriger‘s newest… Read more “Steampunk Manners: Prudence by Gail Carriger”
Single-Car Runaway Trains: Broken Lives in A Streetcar Named Desire
There is not a single emotionally healthy adult to be found in Elia Kazan’s steamy 1951 hothouse drama A Streetcar Named Desire. Every player in this story is… Read more “Single-Car Runaway Trains: Broken Lives in A Streetcar Named Desire”
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1970 film Zabriskie Point was a dismal failure both financially and critically. The second of three English language films the Italian master of existential languish… Read more “Zabriskie Point (1970)”
Roger Ebert, Teacher
I own a lot of books, and I own a lot of movies. It would be hard to say which passion has owned more of me, but… Read more “Roger Ebert, Teacher”
Yearly, Down this Hill: A Love Note to Edna St. Vincent Millay
To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I… Read more “Yearly, Down this Hill: A Love Note to Edna St. Vincent Millay”
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