The 1960s, a time of free love and drugs aplenty. The “hippie subculture” of this era took root around 1965, spawning a worldwide counter culture movement that still has remnants in today’s society. How this new subculture was established, and spread so quickly around the globe, can be attributed to a variety of factors. Ask […]
Rants and Raves
Film Review: Mysteries of Lisbon (Dir. Raúl Ruiz 2010)
That Raúl Ruíz describes his new film as his most theoretical might seem a bit daunting. He’s made over 100 movies in 30 years and they’re all pretty theoretical, from The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting (1979), to Time Regained (1999). Plus, the new one’s a four and half-hour nineteenth-century drama. The theoretical aspect […]
LAFF Film Review: Tomboy
When you look at the photo above do you see a boy or a girl? Would the child’s name be Michael or Laure? The role of gender identity in Celine Sciamma’s second feature film Tomboy is front and center as her protagonist, a 10 year-old girl, pretends to be a boy over the course […]
Film Rave: How To Make A David Lynch Film (Joe McClean 2011)
The iconic image of Henry Spencer from Eraserhead floats across the screen as the short film How To Make A David Lynch Film begins. For all the ways this man looks just like Henry, a true Lynchian fan knows it is not; this man is an impostor, and something is awry. This trickery is of […]
Dream Sharing: Another Look At Inception and the work of Christopher Nolan
After watching Inception for the first time I noticed something unfamiliar as I walked out of the theater: my brain literally hurt. Unlike an annoying headache, it was a pain I welcomed with open arms because it meant there was actually some kind of mental stimulation going on up there. My mind was overwhelmed not […]