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A movie review revisited by Griselda Steiner of a film by Alejandro JodorowskyWith Frank Pavich’s movie, Jodorowsky's Dune, about to open at Film Forum in New York, and the article in the New York Times Magazine of March 14 titled "The … [Continue reading]
Some Reflections on Gravityby John David EbertThe appearance, in science fiction history, of a narrative like that of Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is a cultural watershed indicating that the Twilight of the Space Age is now upon us, despite all … [Continue reading]
To order this book, click here: http://www.amazon.com/Post-Classic-Cinema-Collected-Film-Reviews/dp/1489539484/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391119632&sr=8-1&keywords=post+classic+cinemaIntroduction to the Last Days of Celluloid:An Excerpt … [Continue reading]
The Life and Death of Shauna GrantAn Essay by John David Ebert"'Transcendence' always involves departing from the known and familiar "beings" and going out in some way beyond them."--Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy (of the … [Continue reading]
The Celebrity Morphodynamics of Liberace:Behind the CandelabraA Review by John David EbertAccording to Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental work A Study of History, pre-Civilizational societies are locked into a state of arrest because they … [Continue reading]
Breaking BadA Review by John David EbertWalter White has a problem: the model that he has been following as the "imaginary signification" to shape his life by isn't working. He is an affable high school chemistry teacher whose wife and … [Continue reading]
a movie review by John LobellSomewhere along the way I lost a step, got sloppy... dulled my own edge. Maybe I went and did the worst crime of all: I got civilized. So now we zero the clock. Gotta find that animal side again...I am a big fan … [Continue reading]
Star Trek Into DarknessReviewed by John David EbertStar Trek Into Darkness is a perfect specimen of what I have termed "post-classic cinema," which refers to the characteristic nature of the cinema of the past decade or so, which is a type of … [Continue reading]
IIron Man 3:Reviewed by John David EbertIn ancient Mesoamerican myth,the superhero was the figure of the Aztec eagle warrior: with the jaws of the eagle wide open, the hero's costume revealed him as a human being swallowed up into the … [Continue reading]
Room 237Reviewed by John David EbertRodney Ascher's documentary film about Stanley Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece is an amusing, if insipid, attempt to make Kubrick's adaptation of The Shining "make sense." He calls on the wits of five exegetes … [Continue reading]
The HobbitReviewed by John David EbertI saw this movie in IMAX 3D, and while watching it realized that the drive-in movie hasn't disappeared at all, it has actually been placed inside of the movie theater auditorium and crossed with the … [Continue reading]
The Walking DeadReviewed by John David EbertAs I have pointed out elsewhere, television is now the great new medium that is taking over the role once occupied by cinema, especially the role of miniaturizing ancient and long forgotten … [Continue reading]
In my discussion of The Chronicles of Riddick on this site (which I have retitled The Evolving American Myth, Part 1: The Chronicles of Riddick), I refer to the story of Percival, one of the Arthurian Romances, and to the vision of an inner moral … [Continue reading]
by John LobellAs we await Cloud Atlas, let’s look at a more modest spiritual movie from the past, Babette’s Feast, a 1987 Danish movie directed by Gabriel Axel, staring Stéphane Audran as Babette, and based on a story by Isak … [Continue reading]
by John LobellHave you noticed that quite a few recent movies use non-linear layered time? In 50 First Dates, a man romantically pursues a woman who has suffered a brain injury affecting her long-term memory. Each night she loses all of the … [Continue reading]
