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  January 25 2012, 5:15am | Comments

• Metafilter John Frankenheimer's "Seconds" Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) is a disturbing film to watch. With its unresolved, horrific ending, it’s possibly one of the most depressing films ever made [SPOILER].

  January 22 2012, 4:21pm | Comments

• Link Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia”: A Discussion

  Lars von Trier’s latest has been overshadowed by the director’s ill-judged comments at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. This is a pity because, as Film Quarterly Writer-at-Large NINA POWER and…

  January 11 2012, 6:07am | Comments

• Metafilter Crusoe film adaptations and *that* footprint Robinson Crusoe film adaptations. Which are the best ones? Also, that footprint... For a project I am working on, I want to isolate the moment in Robinson Crusoe…

  September 29 2011, 5:31am | Comments

• Twitter Links Slavoj Zizek - How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer…

  Slavoj Zizek on how to read Lacan (hint: watch #Alien and #TheThing) : http://t.co/m8CjaBV #horror #SciFi #theory #cinema #x

  September 12 2011, 11:32am | Comments

• Twitter Links How to Read Lacan - Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer of Alien

  by Slavoj Zizek For any avid cinema-goer, it is difficult to avoid the feeling that he has already seen all this. Lacan's description not…

  September 5 2011, 12:41am | Comments

• Link How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying…

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Link On Location with John Carpenter’s THE THING

  From the July 1982 issue of Omni. As with all the other commissioned pieces I wrote for the Arts section of that magazine, this originally ran without a title; I’ve…

  June 20 2011, 5:20am | Comments

• Link Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D

  The daring German filmmaker Werner Herzog once walked a thousand miles to propose to a woman. He once plotted to firebomb his leading man's house and once ate his own…

  May 2 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Link Zooming Out: How Writers Create Our Visual Grammar

  Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If,…

  March 8 2011, 10:41am | Comments

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  February 16 2011, 8:38am | Comments

• Link F/X PORN: David Foster Wallace

  What's the difference between a Hollywood special-effects blockbuster like "Terminator 2" and a hard-core porn film? Very little, claims novelist, essayist and footnote fetishist David Foster Wallace. 1990s moviegoers who…

  January 18 2011, 4:57am | Comments

• Portfolio On (Text and) Exaptation

  December 6 2010, 2:41pm | Comments

• Portfolio The Clock

  November 5 2010, 10:11am | Comments

• Link In Defense of the Poor Image

  by Hito Steyerl The poor image is a copy in motion. Its quality is bad, its resolution substandard. As it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image,…

  October 28 2010, 7:27am | Comments

• Link Ridley Scott goes back to Philip K. Dick…

  According to the Guardian Ridley Scott is producing a four-part BBC miniseries based on Philip K Dick's novel The Man in the High Castle. Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks…

  October 8 2010, 3:45am | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily And Another ‘Thing’ : Sci-Fi Truths and Nature's…

  September 5 2010, 9:20pm | Comments

• Link Analogue Inception

  The structure of the film is that of a heist movie, but if the film were to be slotted into a genre, that genre would have to be science fiction.…

  July 18 2010, 6:07am | Comments

• Link 15 Great Movies That Were Never Finished

  Thousands of movies are made every year, and have been almost all the way back to when we first figured out how to make them. We love the theater experience…

  June 10 2010, 9:07am | Comments

• Link Avatar and the Flight from Reality

  In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Artist of the Beautiful” (1844), a prototypical nerd with few social graces and no head for business turns a watchmaker’s shop into an artist’s…

  March 21 2010, 12:55pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 10:25pm | Comments

• Flickr Tron Mosh

  February 10 2010, 1:38pm | Comments

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  February 10 2010, 1:38pm | Comments

• Link Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox

  When, one evening in 1976, Philip K. Dick invited Tim Powers to his Fullerton apartment, the Cal State student expected the kind of night he often passed with the science-fiction…

  January 24 2010, 6:06pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily The Work of the Moving Image in the…

  December 27 2009, 10:06pm | Comments

• Link Gravity Sucks at the BFI

  Simon Faithfull's exhibition Gravity Sucks and his recent talk at the British Film Institute focuses largely around his examination of that most elementary of forces we experience. What Wikipedia calls…

  July 27 2009, 6:04pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments

• Link Last Year at Marienbad: An Intertextual Meditation

  On the making of novels into films, there are two general schools of thought. Some feel that the film should be faithful to the original and are dismayed when it…

  July 6 2009, 9:39am | Comments

• Link three frames

  Three frames is all you need

  June 29 2009, 5:01pm | Comments

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  June 13 2009, 4:33am | Comments

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