This essay was first published on Fourth & Sycamore. So far in our Third Floor Film Series we’ve watched Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 film Vertigo, the groundbreaking… Read more “To Be Good Is Not Enough: Falling Short of Genius in Five Easy Pieces”
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The Conversation, The Lives of Others, and Staring Inappropriately as Vocation
Being a writer means spending one’s life transgressing a rule we all learn as preschoolers: it’s not polite to stare. There is nothing at all polite about… Read more “The Conversation, The Lives of Others, and Staring Inappropriately as Vocation”
More Thoughts on Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
I’ve been thinking recently about Arthur Penn’s 1967 brushfire of a film Bonnie and Clyde. I wrote about the film some here in preparation for leading a screening and… Read more “More Thoughts on Bonnie and Clyde (1967)”
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