Menu Skip to primary content Search Drew Lichtenberg Dramaturg and Theater Critic Bottomless Dream (or, Palindromes and Palimpsests) Written in the Winter of 2012 for Ethan McSweeny’s Dream at the Shakespeare Theatre. Indebted to Jan Kott and "The Bottom Translation," but there are worse fates than to be Kott’s amanuensis. -D...
Encyclopaideia – Journal of Phenomenology and Education. Vol.28 no.69 (2024), 73–84 ISSN 1825-8670 Essays– peer-reviewed https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-8670/18522Childhood hermeneutics and uniqueness of the aesthetic reading of children's literatureStefania Carioli— Link Campus University (Italy)— Contact: s.carioli@unilink.it ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2697-2997 Stefania Carioli is Associate Professor of History of Pedagogy and Education at Link Campus University, Department of...
Lawrence of Arabia dominated the 1963 Academy Awards. It was also voted as "the best British film of all time" by leading filmmakers. It reached the top of the box office and managed a close 2nd overall for the year. Steven Spielberg stated it was his favorite film and the film that inspired him to becoming a film maker. This is just to say it was an important film with a lot of unusual pieces to reconcile. E.g. before Alec Gui...
(Credits: Warner Bros. Pictures)Metacinema: how self-awareness sucked the fun out of movies Fri 2 August 2024 11:00, UKThere’s a time and a place for self-awareness in cinema, and when used correctly, it does nothing but increase the enjoyment factor. However, when it’s used as a crutch that doubles as a thinly veiled admission of substandard writing, then it crosses the line from innovation into apathy.Make no mistake about it—there are a number of wonderful films that wink directly to the a...
Puzzles Episode 1Telemachus Buck Mulligan looks for a face cloth to clean his razor and not finding one in his pocket exclaims: Scutter!(See Gabler's corrected text Ulysses - Line 66, page 4) The explanations I've seen denote . The word is actually an expletive, and is a more polite expression for excrement.I'm melting, he said, as the candle remarked when ... (L333, page 10) seems to be an unfinished joke. It seems the joke remains unknown. Some references relate the comment to Icarus an...
LOTR: Foreword to the 2nd Edition Pt 4Sensing the Trace of the Fugitive GodsBaldr the BeautifulWe conclude our annotation of Tolkien’s Foreword to the 2nd Edition (1966) of The Lord of the Rings with Tolkien’s final attempt (it appears) to rescue his mythology from childish roots, counter culture fans, and source-seeking intellectuals. Up to this point in the foreword, Tolkien distanced LOTR from its assumed prequel, The Hobbit, and connected it to his larger pure myth The Silmarillion. Tolk...
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Beyond Good and Evil - Copilot Summary Certainly! Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is a thought-provoking work that challenges traditional morality and delves into the concept of the "superman." Let's explore its key themes and ideas: Aphoristic Structure: The book consists of 296 aphorisms grouped into nine chapters, each ranging from a few sentences to a few pages. These aphorisms cover various topics, making the work both concise and profound.Philosophers and Dogmatism: Nietzsch...
Table of ContentsMovies about filmmakers and the process of making movies have been around for ages. It makes sense. After all, what’s one subject that most filmmakers are interested in? Movies, of course. But while many films about filmmaking focus on the wonder and power inherent in movie magic, there is a dark side to everything. That means there is no shortage of horror movies that focus on film productions.Horror movies about making movies fall into a wide variety of subgenres. Many have...
Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker by Berthold Auerbach JOSEPH IN THE SNOW, AND THE CLOCKMAKER. BY AUERBACH. TRANSLATED BY LADY WALLACE IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. III. LONDON: SAUNDERS, OTLEY, AND CO., 66, BROOK STREET, HANOVER SQUARE. 1861. LONDON: PRINTED BY W. CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET, AND CHARING CROSS.CONTENTS OF VOL. III. CHAPTER XXIII. The first Nail knocked in, Peace in the House, and the first Sunday Guest CHAPTER XXIV. Ancient Heirlooms are dismissed, and a new Tone pr...
Remembering John Carpenter’s "They Live"Do any of the great movie fight scenes stick in the memory as much as Nada taking on Frank in an alleyway in 1988's They Live? Is Roddy Piper and Keith David’s epic fight scene in John Carpenter’s They Live the greatest of all time? Granted, there have been some epic one on ones over the years: Neo versus Agent Smith in The Matrix, Indiana Jones versus The German Mechanic in Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Bruce Lee versus Han in Enter the Dragon. But do a...
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Thoughts On 道可道 非常道 January 25, 2020 Cinema & Synchronicity — Thoughts On: Jungian Film Theory A consideration of the contingency and chance significance of meaning in artistic mediums. Art finds you as much as you find it. I have been interested of late in a wider conception of cinematic and artistic meaning under a Jungian lens. It is fascinating to think of meaning as related to primordial imagery, the unknown symbol and archetypal patterns in s...
The most exciting thing to encounter in the world of publishing is a writer who doesn’t sound like anyone else. I first read Gabriel Smith at the Drift, where our then fiction editor spied his story, "The Complete," in the slush, so it’s been a thrill to help bring out his debut novel, Brat, in my other role as an editor at Penguin Press. Brat is sharp, wickedly funny, moving, unusual, spooky, haunted, textually layered—the adjectives sort of flow endlessly. It’s a book you’ll keep turning ov...
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Skip to main contentABC listen HomeRadioPodcastsNewsABC listen appProgram: Thomas Caldwell reviews Triangle of SadnessProgram:Victorian Afternoons Broadcast Tue 6 Dec 2022 at 8:30pmTuesday 6 Dec 2022 at 8:30pm Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.Presented byJacinta ParsonsTriangle of Sadness reviewEarly in the film it is revealed that the ‘triangle of sadness’ is a term used in the beauty industry to describe the wrinkled pattern bet...
'Anything Can Happen in This Movie': The Sheer Satirical Brilliance of 'The Square' Ruben Östlund has made monkeying around an art form. Jon Fusco Oct 06, 2017 No one is safe from the satirical grip of the Swedish auteur Ruben Östlund. Even the audiences and jury at Cannes 2017, where his latest filmThe Square received multiple awards, were no more than a joke at his expense. "The aim of the film was that we should be accepted in competition," he explained. "I loved the idea that when the com...
A Treatise of the System of the World, by Sir Isaac Newton. / Public DomainFor decades, historians have grappled with the origins of modern science in early modern Europe.By Dr. Oded Rabinovitch, Senior Lecturer in History, Tel Aviv UniversityAbstractHistorians have long debated the origins of modern science in early modern Europe. Recently, however, scholars pointed to our need to understand how the ‘new philosophy’ became a sustained movement, which did not dissipate over the course of a fe...
From High on Films blogThere’s a real thrill in watching a film bend style and form, both captivating and surprising in using a mix of techniques. Even if the narrative ground it covers may seem featureless and generic at first glance, the film offsets expectations by infusing familiar templates with a dash of innovation in its aesthetic choices. What could have been easily predictable and dull turns exciting and invigoratingly fresh. This is what Argentinian filmmaker Hernan Rosselli accompl...
There's something comforting about settling in to watch a good mystery movie. You sort of know exactly what to expect. I watch a ton of mystery movies because I think they are wonderful at getting audiences excited about their premises and clearly defining their stakes. Mystery movies have captivated audiences for generations, weaving intricate plots, enigmatic characters, and thrilling suspense. Their ability to transport us to worlds of intrigue and challenge our deductive skills is what ma...
By-the-books biopics are a dime a dozen and often result in a shallow portrait of their subject. But every once in a while you'll get a filmmaker whose film's unconventional form perfectly aligns with the singular talent at its heart. Such is the case with co-writer and director Ethan Hawke's "Wildcat," starring his daughter Maya Hawke as writer Flannery O'Connor, whose sardonic Southern Gothic humor elevated the ordinary lives of the characters in her stories to otherworldly and grotesque he...
By Jeremy Carr. Ben Model and his Undercrank Productions continue to deliver eclectic fare from the annals of film history, distributing movies that shed light on their respective era, their audiences, and their creators."Given the nature of what is discovered, handled, and ultimately distributed as part of the Accidentally Preserved series, a fair amount of variety is to be expected. Accrued from private collections of rare 16mm prints—"Show-at-Home" versions of a studio’s 35mm offerings—div...
When the British mockumentary sitcom series known as The Office was released in 2001, few could have predicted what a smash hit it would eventually become. By the series’ ten-year anniversary there were no fewer than six different versions of the series around the world, the latest of which was the Israeli show HaMisrad. 1 As of 2023, six additional adaptations have been released, with a few more still in the works. 2 Clearly, there is something about ridiculous bosses and banal office politi...
Puzzles are a kind of analog telepathy. The puzzle designer conceives of an idea, and then attempts, through the expression of their work—a maze, a cipher, an encoded message or cleverly hidden clue—to export that idea to someone else’s head, in as clean a fashion as possible. It’s the same process that happens in nearly any artistic endeavor, really, except made more direct and pure: Puzzles, unlike stories, have solutions, essentially demanding that you follow the designer’s intent all the ...