Seeing The Shining in IMAX: When the Hotel Gets Bigger—and Stranger Last week I went to the movies with friends. Takes a special film to get me out of my house. But I can tell you watching The Shining in IMAX is less like revisiting a classic and more like being swallowed by it. Kubrick’s film has always beenContinue reading “the shining in IMAX: when the hotel gets bigger—and stranger”
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inside llewyn davis and the mobius strip narrative
Teaching a film as lit class this term and spending some time this week closely studying Joel and Ethan Coen’s pre-Bob Dylan period film Inside Llewyn Davis. I am particularly interested in the themes of crisis and purposeleness. I also like the feel that the narrative is a mobius strip trapping the main character. I am seeingContinue reading “inside llewyn davis and the mobius strip narrative”
quick note–twin peaks, juan rulfo and spirit world voices
After a long semester of teaching I found some time to indulge in studying the novella Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo. I’ve been an admirer of Rulfo’s career and this book reads as a tremendous progression from his short stories I was introduced to in his book The Burning Plain. What I found in this work is aContinue reading “quick note–twin peaks, juan rulfo and spirit world voices”