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Getting into Curtis Harrington’s Head: Flicker Alley and Drag City Release the Avant-Mainstream Director’s Experimental Shorts

  • July 31, 2013

“Being fascinated with the occult, Harrington would surely have recognized that by beginning and ending his life work with the same story he was drawing a mandala around that life, making it as self-contained a thing as one of his films, all of which belong to the “trance” tradition whose introspective mien establish the work as occurring within a given consciousness walled off in some way from the natural world.”

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly title card

Reviews · Visual Artists

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Lardani’s Signature: Technical Mastery and Apparent Glitch in Eugenio Lardani’s titles for Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  • July 31, 2013

“These features distinguish Lardani’s credit from the rest of the sequence in a very dramatic way — unlike the other titles, which are immediately obvious as credits, it is possible to miss his credit entirely, a strange distinction to choose given his role and, according to his son, complete freedom in creating the design. It is almost as if his title card is hidden in plain sight.”

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A Gatsby Pre-View

  • May 6, 2013

My fiancée and I were sitting on the couch the other night. I was flipping channels on the TV and watching baseball on my laptop, she was poking around on[…]

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To the Wonder (Terrence Malick, 2013)

  • May 2, 2013

My four-word review of To the Wonder: “more of the same.” Which is not necessarily a bad thing … if you like Malick. To the Wonder continues the autobiographical mode of[…]

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