The Complete A of Altruism: In Which the Selfish Gene Explains Everything
Except whether to laugh or cry
Author: D. J. M. Saunders
D. J. M. Saunders is a practising artist who lives and works in Cardiff, Wales. Hotels and Homelands: After Ken and Rosa
Neither will be the same
Lost Watches and Lost Souls: From New Jersey to Old Istanbul
Fresh Starts Don’t Come Easy
The Misery Business: In Which Your Agent Will Be Lauren Bacall
And your ankles will still bebroken
What’s Your Function? How Movies Are Made
You mean you’ve tried panicking?
Only the Pictures: We’re All Editing, Ed
But about this audit
Oh What a Lovely Jail: Crime Is Old, Crime Is New
Just Like Those Mind-Forged Manacles Blues A desire for revenge is a normal response to crime. Ask anyone who has just had his house burgled or car stolen. But there[…]
Amazing Scenes: Pretending to Be Normal
Pause. N-o-o-o-o-t! “Variety reports that Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson have teamed to produce a trilogy of Tintin feature films, with each director helming at least one of the features.”[…]
Sovereign Remedies: Queen of Hearts to President
A Progress Boccaccio’s Decameron, written immediately after the Black Death, hints at the arrival of a more egalitarian post-pandemic world. This was especially evident in the new approach to gender[…]
Twin Piques: Church and Bourgeoisie in Buñuel
That Obscure Agent of Misanthropy? Un Chien Andalou (1929), the “surrealist masterpiece” made in collaboration with Salvador Dali was, in one sense, a new sugar-free version of Rene Clair’s original[…]
Falling Angels, Rising People: A Brief Look at Sex-and-Spirituality in Cinema
Wings not desired Simply assuming that human goodness will triumph over its opposite is — as everybody knows — an immature stance. It makes us easy targets for scoundrels of[…]
Floating Bridges: Caution: Children Crossing
Subtitles for the hard-of-believing One of the strangest facts about film on DVD is that it is not — in the original sense of the word — cinema at all.[…]
French & American Beauty: Mid-20th-Century Vistas from Tati to Scorsese
Par avion ad astra * * * If the 1940s was a golden age, most of us born then would probably admit to having blinked and missed it. On the[…]
The Last Cockroach: The De- and Rehumanizing of Culture in Cinema
Reasons to be evil An eclectic taste in films can have odd results. Having seen, within days of each other, Hotel Rwanda (Terry George, 2004), and The Wraith (Mike Marvin,[…]
Capra’s Corn? Dante … Dickens … Capra …
George Bailey’s wartime America looks eerily familiar
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