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Culture Casablanca Codes

Ilsa

"I don't know what's right any longer."

Posted April 25, 2025

Culture Casablanca Codes

Strasser

"Are you entirely certain which side you're on?"

Posted March 23, 2025

Culture Casablanca Codes

Laszlo

"Each of us has a destiny, for good or for evil."

Posted February 23, 2025

Culture Casablanca Codes

Ferrari

"This is a job for Signor Ferrari."

Posted January 20, 2025

Culture Decoder

The Matrix

"Culture is the software of the mind."

Posted May 25, 2024

Culture Decoder

Rope

Theory and practice can be worlds apart.

Posted April 25, 2024

Culture Decoder

The Wonder

How to marshal myth, meaning, and embodied imagination…

Posted March 5, 2024

Culture Decoder

Music Box

"Each new clue twists and turns Talbot’s perspective… and ours too."

Posted January 15, 2024

Culture Decoder

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

"Versions of the Blue Fairy connote everything from faith to desire, dream, destination…"

Posted November 15, 2023

Culture Decoder

Arrival

As she shifts languages she shifts worlds, perspectives and motivations…

Posted October 25, 2023

Culture Shocking Blocking

Madigan

The cops are society’s super-ego, the girl is its id.

Posted January 25, 2021

Culture Shocking Blocking

The Mack

Dandyism and flâneurie as radical/misguided street theater.

Posted January 18, 2021

Culture Shocking Blocking

It Happened One Night

“Awww, I like mushy stuff!”

Posted January 11, 2021

Culture Shocking Blocking

Eraserhead

Replete with images of loneliness, tedium, and paranoia.

Posted January 4, 2021

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Music Box

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

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Madigan

The Mack

It Happened One Night

Eraserhead