Category: Cinema

  • Intentional Pareidolia in “The Passenger”

    In my writing on “Blow Up” I have referred to some instances of intentional pareidolia in Antonioni’s “The Passenger”, for which reason I’ll post these notes on the opening portion of that film as an example.

  • Zabriskie Point, Part Five

    Zabriskie Point, Part Five

    The analysis, which has been updated and moved to the static portion of the website, can be accessed via this link.

  • Zabriskie Point, Part Four

    Zabriskie Point, Part Four

    The analysis, which has been updated and moved to the static portion of the website, can be accessed via this link.

  • Zabriskie Point, Part Three

    Zabriskie Point, Part Three

    The analysis, which has been updated and moved to the static portion of the website, can be accessed via this link.

  • Zabriskie Point, Part Two

    Zabriskie Point, Part Two

    The analysis, which has been updated and moved to the static portion of the website, can be accessed via this link.

  • Zabriskie Point

    Zabriskie Point

    The analysis, which has been updated and moved to the static portion of the website, can be accessed via this link.

  • The Fly, Pose 1 (Hipstamatic iPhone Capture)

    The Fly, Pose 1 (Hipstamatic iPhone Capture)

    The Fly, Pose 1 (Hipstamatic iPhone Capture)[clear] Identical to the fly ashtray that’s in Jarmusch’s “Mystery Train”…

  • Doubt

    Doubt

    Not having seen “Doubt” on the stage, and having read some reviews of the play that laud it over the film and remarks on some differences, I feel at a disadvantage discussing the film, but as John Patrick Shanley, the author, also directed the film, unless he privately changed the motivations of his characters during…

  • Hollywood, Pavlovian Pups, and The Best Adjusted Nervous System Response Desired by Corporate Psychologists

    Hollywood, Pavlovian Pups, and The Best Adjusted Nervous System Response Desired by Corporate Psychologists

    I just watched a film short on Turner Classic Movies that was pretty interesting, titled “Of Pups and Puzzles”. The film was released Sept 1941 and thus predated, if by just a few months, the bombing of Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into WWII, so it wasn’t your standard WWII patriotic oompahpah, though I felt…

  • George Pal’s “Time Machine”

    George Pal’s “Time Machine”

    “Let’s watch The Time Machine,” I’ve been encouraging H.o.p. for a couple of weeks, and he always declined, intent instead on working on his projects, not wanting to be distracted despite the fact it was directed by animator and special effects artist (hero) George Pal. Which surprised me as he loved Pal’s “War of the…

  • Painted Desert Inn

    Painted Desert Inn

    Painted Desert Inn, Stairway to Old Hotel Room Entrances View On White Was watching a little of the movie in which Judy Garland plays a Harvey Girl and was reminded of the Painted Desert Inn, which was a Harvey institution during the late 40s through early 60s. I returned to those photos and worked on…

  • Ben Hur

    The other night I saw Ben Hur for the first time. Marty hadn’t seen it either and begged me several times to turn it off. “Hnh? Gay!” I thought, watching Massalla (Stephen Boyd) and Ben Hur (Charlton Heston), or so it seemed to me, but this was crazy-making as I couldn’t see Charlton Heston knowingly…