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Looking back at Apocalypse Now

August 6, 2009 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

APOCALYPSE NOW Directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola A movie review by John Lobell Apocalypse Now is number five on Ebert’s list on this site of visionary movies (2001 is number 1). He writes: “Coppola’s epic retelling of The Odyssey combined with Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is a totally unique, absolutely original cinematic vision. Again, […]

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On Technology

June 1, 2009 By John Lobell 8 Comments

The Rise of the Machines: A Contrarian View By John Lobell  Many, including John Ebert, have been seeing movies like Terminator: Salvation as growing out of our unease, perhaps even fear of the intrusion of machines into our lives. And, as Ebert points out, the far out science fiction of these movies is fast becoming […]

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On Star Trek

May 23, 2009 By John Lobell 1 Comment

Star Trek: A Movie Review By John Lobell  The new Star Trek movie is so highly satisfying because it introduces a richness of back-story into a franchise we know so well, and because it adds a mythological depth. This depth does not approach that of Star Wars, but it is there. And since we now […]

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On Tarzan

December 4, 2008 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

A Glance Into the Symbolic Landscapes of Tarzan By John David Ebert Descent If Edgar Rice Burroughs, with his earlier protagonist John Carter, Warlord of Mars, had in 1912 established the pattern of the superhero who arrives on the ground from the heavens above, then with his second creation — Tarzan, Lord of the Apes […]

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On James Bond

November 13, 2008 By John David Ebert 3 Comments

The Strangely Distorted, and Weirdly Elongated World of James Bond (Unabridged Version) By John David Ebert  1.  The first James Bond novel, Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, appeared in 1953, just as the Korean War was coming to an end and the C.I.A. was planning the removal of Mossadegh from office in Iran. Within a few years, […]

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On Babylon A.D.

September 5, 2008 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

Babylon A.D.: A Movie Review   By John Lobell  While 2001: A Space Odyssey can be regarded as the origin of the modern visionary movie, The Matrix is the origin of the contemporary “luminous transcendent” movie. It is a genre that freaks out the critics, with its deaths and resurrections, virgin births, and suggestions that human beings are […]

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On The X Files

July 24, 2008 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

 The X-Files and the Breakdown of Our Cultural Immune System By John David Ebert 1. By now, Mulder and Scully have become almost as famous as their literary prototypes Holmes and Watson. Indeed, in many ways, they strongly resemble this earlier pair of detectives who stand at the threshold of the birth of the forensic […]

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On Wanted

July 10, 2008 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

Wanted: A Movie Review By John Lobell Myths are a repository of the structures and mores of a culture, a suprapsychology, a system of principles describing the nature and workings of being, the universe, society, and individual development. Movies have become a dominant artistic form in our culture, and are therefore a major vehicle for […]

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William Irwin Thompson Comments

April 29, 2008 By John David Ebert 9 Comments

A Response to John Ebert’s Review of Cloverfield By William Irwin Thompson As always, John, an interesting spin on the ordinary.  Yes, catastrophes are coming our way, which is why I feature them so strongly in my essay on “Catastrophist Governance and the Need for a Tricameral Legislature.”  But another point is that our culture […]

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On James Bond

April 21, 2008 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

The Tribal Cosmology of James Bond By John David Ebert  The first James Bond novel, Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, appeared in 1953, just as the Korean War was coming to an end and the C.I.A. was planning the removal of Mossadegh from office in Iran. Within a few years, the U.S. government would begin sending […]

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On Andy Warhol

April 6, 2008 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

 Andy Warhol: Prophet of You Tube By John David Ebert 1.  Andy Warhol was the first great icon painter of electronic society. In contemplating his gallery of celebrity portraits, we are struck by the possibility that some Medieval icon painter, an Andre Rublev, say, had died and been reborn in the twentieth century as a […]

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On Howard Hughes

March 23, 2008 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

Howard Hughes: Prototype For the Global Citizen By John David Ebert  1.  Howard Hughes was the prototype for a new kind of human being: nomadic, uprooted, cityless, wandering, Hughes prefigured the coming inhabitant of our global aeropolis, the transurban world of “no-place” that has come to displace the traditional container of the geographically bounded cities […]

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On The Maltese Falcon

March 22, 2008 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

The Maltese Falcon: An Archaeology of Ancient Images By John David Ebert 1.  Every noir narrative begins with a corpse, and in the present case, we are confronted with the dead body of one “Miles Archer,” a man whom, we soon discover, was the partner of Sam Spade. Together, the pair ran a private detective agency […]

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On the Kennedy Assassination

February 22, 2008 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

The War Between Eye and Ear in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy By John David Ebert  If one considers the possibility that it was indeed the CIA — or certain elements within the CIA — who decided to assassinate Kennedy, one is struck by the suspicion that the act itself was an indirect condemnation […]

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On Ronald Reagan

February 18, 2008 By John Lobell Leave a Comment

Etheric Ghosts and Virtual Doubles: John Hinckley’s Attempt on the Life of Ronald Reagan Considered From the Viewpoint of Media Studies By John David Ebert  The whole drama of Reagan, John Hinckley, Jr., and Jodie Foster is symptomatic of a culture in which history is being replaced by virtual images manufactured in silicon circuits and […]

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