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The Shining Scene-by-Scene is Now Out!

July 20, 2015 By John David Ebert 1 Comment

    This book is now available at the following link: http://www.amazon.com/Shining-Scene—Scene-David-Ebert/dp/1515105490/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1437412748&sr=8-1&keywords=the+shining+scene-by-scene+john+david+ebert Excerpted from The Shining Scene-by-Scene by John David Ebert “Opening Credits: The Ascent up the Mountain” The first shot of the film is taken from the perspective of a helicopter doing a quick fly-by over a mountain lake where a small island densely packed […]

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New Book Out: Star Wars Scene-by-Scene by John David Ebert

July 1, 2015 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

This book can be ordered on Amazon at: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Scene—Scene-David-Ebert/dp/1514680572/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1435736022&sr=8-7&keywords=john+david+ebert AN EXCERPT FROM STAR WARS: SCENE-BY-SCENE by John David Ebert: “The Capture of the Droids” (8:48 – 15:10)   A shot of the Imperial Star Destroyer drifting over the desert planet of Tatooine, laced with silvery-blue striations, then follows, giving the viewer a basic vector: from above […]

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New Book Out: “Apocalypse Now Scene-by-Scene” by John David Ebert

June 11, 2015 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

This book is now available for purchase at the following link:  http://www.amazon.com/Apocalypse-Scene—Scene-David-Ebert/dp/0985480289/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1434117953&sr=8-1&keywords=apocalypse+now+scene-by-scene   Excerpted from the book Apocalypse Now Scene-by-Scene  by John David Ebert: KILGORE II (34:05 – 52:08) In this scene, Kilgore’s Air-Cav regiment launches from the ground at dawn to the bugle cries of reveille. There follows a hypnotic, morphine-trance ride through the […]

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From “Star Wars: Scene-by-Scene”

June 5, 2015 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

  ON THE TORTURE OF PRINCESS LEIA An Excerpt from My Forthcoming Book Star Wars: Scene-by-Scene by John David Ebert Three Imperial T.I.E. fighters—polished gray-black—are now shown heading for the Death Star as a transitional shot to the space station. Meanwhile, inside one of the Death Star’s corridors, Darth Vader is shown walking purposefully forward, […]

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Mad Max: Fury Road

May 15, 2015 By John David Ebert 8 Comments

  Mad Max: Fury Road Reviewed by John David Ebert Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller’s fourth installment in his classic “Mad Max” series turns out to be a little like The Phantom Menace: it is big, loud, full of flashy, glitzy special effects, stunts and various super-machines, but all this apparatus merely has the […]

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Ex-Machina

April 21, 2015 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

GUEST REVIEW: Ex-Machina by Brian Culkin Of all the thematic binarities Ex-Machina employs to develop its narrative–man vs machine, morality vs power, secrets vs transparency–it is the one never overtly spoken of that has the most profound effect.  For in this binarity, the mise en scene of the entire film, the primal dialectic of nature (the pure […]

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Fight Club Revisited

March 6, 2015 By John David Ebert 2 Comments

FIGHT CLUB REVISITED A Retroactive Review by John David Ebert David Fincher’s 1999 film Fight Club–his fourth–is a kind of thematic sequel to Martin Scorsese’s 1976 Taxi Driver.  Both films, that is to say, are studies of alienated individuals who turn hostile to their own societies, but in the case of Taxi Driver, Scorsese’s film was […]

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New Book by John David Ebert on Cultural Heroes

February 14, 2015 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

  This book can be ordered from Amazon at: https://www.createspace.com/5301621 From the Preface: The following is a book, not so much about superheroes, but about the kinds of heroes made possible by transformations of media. The twentieth century has perhaps seen more media transformations than in the entirety of human history since the dawn of those […]

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Exodus: Gods and Kings

December 14, 2014 By John David Ebert 4 Comments

Exodus: Gods and Kings Reviewed by John David Ebert Ridley Scott’s new film is the most recent in a long series of Hollywood Biblical epics that stretches from Cecil B. Demille to Darren Aronofsky’s recent debacle, Noah. It is a much better film than Noah, and makes for better watching than most of the previous […]

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Interstellar

November 8, 2014 By John David Ebert 7 Comments

Interstellar Reviewed by John David Ebert Christopher Nolan’s new film Interstellar hybridizes two ancient Near Eastern genres: the myth of the end of the world (first articulated by the Sumerians with the Flood myth of Ziusudra that later found its way into the Bible) and the later ascensionist literature, created during the first to third centuries AD, […]

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Maps to the Stars: Cronenberg Back in Form

September 25, 2014 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

  Maps to the Stars Reviewed by John David Ebert For the ancients, the quickest route to the stars was death: all you had to do was suffer heroically after accomplishing some great deed and, like the twins Castor and Pollux (who became Gemini), the gods might consider placing you into the heavens as stars […]

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John David Ebert to Teach MOOC on Understanding Contemporary Art

August 29, 2014 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ART Taught by John David Ebert Hosted by Open Online Academy For Eight Weeks Class Begins: September 29, 2014 Class Ends: November 21, 2014 Number of Video Lectures: Approximately 60 To Enroll, simply press a button at the following link and sit back to begin watching the first week’s lectures on Sept 29: […]

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On Jodorowsky’s Dune

May 15, 2014 By John David Ebert 1 Comment

R.I.P. H.R. Giger: A Review of Jodorowsky’s Dune by Benton Rooks [www.bentonrooks.com] “A medicine man shouldn’t be a saint. He should experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and the joy, the magic and the reality, the courage and fear of his people…You have to be God and the devil, both of […]

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New Book by John David Ebert

May 8, 2014 By John David Ebert Leave a Comment

Giant Humans, Tiny Worlds: Adventures in the Universe of Graphic Novels (An Excerpt) by John David Ebert This book can be ordered here: https://www.createspace.com/4683141 At first glance, a graphic novel is simply a comic book with a spine. But a spine implies an organism with a higher, more evolved form of life—composed out of the […]

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On Being Deleted from Wikipedia

April 23, 2014 By John David Ebert 4 Comments

The link below is a web page detailing Wikipedia’s reasons for deleting me from existence. I highly recommend  you take a look at it because the implications of it are staggering: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/John_David_Ebert_(2nd_nomination) I am the author of 8, count them, 8 books. The first, Twilight of the Clockwork God, was published in 1999 by a […]

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