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Nov 12, 2025
Someday someone will actually adapt Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into a film. Until then, we will have to make do with filmmakers using Shelley’s ever-resilient...
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Nov 7, 2025
In contemporary literature there have been few genres so confusingly and consistently debated as autofiction. Though generally ill-defined, and often indistinguishable from memoir,...
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Oct 15, 2025
Seth Rogen is dreaming of New Hollywood. Just a few weeks ago, Apple’s The Studio won 13 Emmys — setting the record for most wins for a comedy series. The...
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Aug 25, 2025
It’s a gift for the young cineaste to be introduced to certain filmmakers at certain stages of life. The films of Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, for instance, are a...
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Jul 31, 2025
Superhero films are strange things. For all that we’ve been inundated with in that bloating genre ever since Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie kicked off the...
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May 15, 2025
An old musicology professor of mine used to start off his grad seminar with a thought experiment: “If I asked you all — right this moment — to bring me some music,...
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Feb 27, 2025
“...that is to say, when an idea would have been by a Roman, or Byzantine, symbolically represented, the Gothic mind realizes it to the utmost…the Gothic inventor does...
Nov 12, 2025Someday someone will actually adapt Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into a film. Until then, we will have to make do with filmmakers using Shelley’s ever-resilient...
Nov 7, 2025In contemporary literature there have been few genres so confusingly and consistently debated as autofiction. Though generally ill-defined, and often indistinguishable from memoir,...
Oct 15, 2025Seth Rogen is dreaming of New Hollywood. Just a few weeks ago, Apple’s The Studio won 13 Emmys — setting the record for most wins for a comedy series. The...
Aug 25, 2025It’s a gift for the young cineaste to be introduced to certain filmmakers at certain stages of life. The films of Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, for instance, are a...
Jul 31, 2025Superhero films are strange things. For all that we’ve been inundated with in that bloating genre ever since Bryan Singer’s first X-Men movie kicked off the...
May 15, 2025An old musicology professor of mine used to start off his grad seminar with a thought experiment: “If I asked you all — right this moment — to bring me some music,...
Feb 27, 2025“...that is to say, when an idea would have been by a Roman, or Byzantine, symbolically represented, the Gothic mind realizes it to the utmost…the Gothic inventor does...