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    Touched by an Angel (of Death): Douglas Trumbull’s Brainstorm and the Visionary Ideal

    • June 21, 2022

    “Look at the stars,” the genius of Trumbull’s movie finally seems to be saying, but also know the stars within. * * * Often, it’s the throwaway scenes that click.[…]

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    Activist & Political · Comedy · Counterculture · Experimental & Underground

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    Laughing at Ourselves: On William Klein’s Mr. Freedom (1969)

    • June 16, 2022

    This is an excerpt from the introduction to the author’s new book on Mr. Freedom (https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/books/isbn/9781800856943/). * * * The film calls into question both the American international and domestic[…]

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    Covid-19 · Digital · Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · Pandemic · Societal Trends · TV & Streaming · Videos

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    Dispatch from Tribeca #1 (2022): The YouTube Effect

    • June 11, 2022

    YouTube is a global idea farm, not unlike Big Agriculture: welcome, user, to your pre-fab silo, built “just for you” by YouTube’s secret algorithm. That algorithm loads about 70% of[…]

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    Activist & Political · African American · Essays · Societal Trends

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    The Many Shades of Blackface

    • June 6, 2022

    Editor’s Note: As  part of Bright Lights’ ongoing campaign to challenge dogmatic viewpoints and advocate for nuanced analysis of cultural controversies, we present Graham Daseler’s powerful analysis of one of[…]

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Snow White

#MeToo · Activist & Political · Animation · Commentary · Essays · Women in Film

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and #MeToo: Reclaiming a Classic

  • June 1, 2022

Editor’s Note: In an era where dogma rules and nuanced approaches to cultural creations are considered problematic, we repost M. C. Myers’ brilliant and timely analysis of Disney’s Snow White[…]

Border South

Documentaries · Migration · Societal Trends

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Raúl Paz Pastrana’s Documentary Border South (2019) as Process Genre

  • May 26, 2022

From the documentary’s beginning until its closing credits, the Central American migrants who journey across Mexico are filmed accomplishing everyday yet extraordinary tasks. Most specifically, they are filmed taking part[…]

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Northman

Drama · Historical & Epic

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“No Viking Atheists”: The Northman’s Journey into Old World Belief

  • May 21, 2022

Director Robert Eggers’s historical realities get a budget upgrade * * * With The Northman – already famous for its historical accuracy – writer-director Robert Eggers strives to give his[…]

Unfriended: Dark Web

Experimental & Underground · Horror · New Media · Societal Trends · Theory · Thrillers & Action · TV & Streaming

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A Spectre in the Participatory Panopticon: The Database Horror of Unfriended: Dark Web

  • May 17, 2022

The encounter between the lead characters and The Circle evokes a wider sense of anxiety regarding the extent to which we upload information about every area of our lives into[…]

U2 Live at Red Rocks

Documentaries · Music & Musicals

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Under Bloodless Skies: U2 Live at Red Rocks after 40

  • May 13, 2022

Their performance isn’t marked by precision or technical mastery. It’s an onrush of unbridled enthusiasm all the way through – a frenzied, joyous romp that treats the show as if[…]

Her Sister's Secret

Costume Drama · Designers · Drama · Fashion · Melodrama · Photo Essays · Romance

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What Unwed Mothers Wore in 1946: Ulmer’s Her Sister’s Secret and Leisen’s To Each His Own

  • May 7, 2022

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. – Elsa Schiaparelli * * * Edgar G. Ulmer’s Her Sister’s Secret was released to theaters the same year as Mitchell Leisen’s To[…]

Phantom of Liberty

Absurdism · Comedy · Drama · French Cinema · Mystery · Psychology

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Fathoming the Phantom: On Bunuel’s The Phantom of Liberty

  • April 30, 2022

The question becomes: is it worth trying to be free? Is the struggle fruitless? Why can’t we escape our servitude to the past, to society, to others? * * *[…]

Gaia

Eco · Horror · SF & Fantasy

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My New Life as Human Fertilizer: Jaco Bouwer’s Gaia (2021)

  • April 26, 2022

In his creation of a nonhuman cinematic world that mines horror from its confrontation of human fear of irrelevance and inadaptability, Bouwer ultimately suggests that survival in the era following[…]

Zodiac

Books · Crime · Directors

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Book Review: David Fincher’s Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation

  • April 21, 2022

David Fincher’s Zodiac: Cinema of Investigation and (Mis)Interpretation, edited by Matthew Sorrento and David Ryan. 259 pp. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2022. 2007 was a good year for American film, with[…]

Orson Welles

Directors · Sports

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The Shadow of Ernest Hemingway: On Crazy Weather, Orson Welles’s Unpublished 1973 Bullfighting Screenplay

  • April 15, 2022

The unfinished projects to which Welles devoted his energies began in July 1961. This was exactly twenty-five years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the year in which[…]

Actors & Personalities · French Cinema

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Delphine Seyrig: The Eternal Return

  • April 11, 2022

“Seyrig is capable of stopping an entire film with one decisive physical gesture, one smile, one glare, one sound from her smoky, murmuring voice.”

Actors & Personalities · Dance · Dancers · Hollywood · Music & Musicals

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Fred Astaire: Footsteps on the Sands of Time

  • April 6, 2022

He is transfixing just walking across the screen in his first movie, Dancing Lady (1933), where he partners Joan Crawford and looks as if he could fly if he wanted[…]

Family · Horror · Women in Film

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Home Wee Home – It’s Where the Horror Is: Miniature Models, Crime Scenes, and Toxic Femininity in Hereditary and Sharp Objects

  • March 30, 2022

A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, It can talk, talk, talk. – Sylvia Plath, “The Applicant” (Oct. 11, 1962) And they stuck me together[…]

James Caan

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“The Best Jewish Cowboy”: An Interview with James Caan

  • March 26, 2022

“Hard times will make a monkey eatred peppers.”

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Happy Happy Birthday Baby! Steve McQueen (b. 3/24/30): Fifty Years of the King of Cool

  • March 24, 2022

“Steve understood real people, particularly misfits, like nobody else.It was just the Hollywood brass he loathed.”

Sir Gawain

Historical & Epic · Medieval · Women in Film

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Medieval Arthuriana Was Always Scary, but Not in the Way You’d Think: On Sir Gawain and The Green Knight

  • March 21, 2022

The adaptation is successful not just in its understanding of how irreverent and illogical the narrative space of medieval romance is and always has been, but also in how it[…]

eyes without a face

Crime · Gothic · Horror · Melodrama · Photo Essays

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To Cut or Not to Cut? The POV Shots in Eyes Without a Face (and how they differ from those in Psycho)

  • March 16, 2022

Franju demonstrates how beauty hides pain, until pain becomes beautiful. * * * Georges Franju’s Les yeux sans visage/Eyes Without a Face is a reliably haunting film, a beautiful nightmare[…]

Spirited Away

Animation · Asian · Communism and Socialism

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Monster in the Machine: Monstrosity and Marxism in Spirited Away

  • March 11, 2022

The gold that No-Face dispenses to the workers later crumbles into a pile of dirt. Conjured from nothing, No-Face’s fabricated currency undermines the very system of profit that capitalism is[…]

Drama · Women in Film · Writers & Critics

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Novel into Film: Adapting Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter

  • March 7, 2022

We come to find out as viewers, whether we believe in Leda’s self-governing comportment at the beginning or not, that this task of motherhood is never-ending; each work demonstrates to[…]

Divine Horsemen

Experimental & Underground · Religion & Spirituality · Women in Film

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A White Darkness: Maya Deren in Haiti

  • March 3, 2022

The volition of these dancers is as clear as the sense that it is not their own. Deren mirrors this depersonalization masterfully; her camera splits a man between his reflections,[…]

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