The Guv’nor

His commitment to peripatetic idling never wavers.

Origin of the Pogo

The role of anthropologists is to interpret the guiding symbols of each culture.

The Asphalt Jungle

The least understood aspect of the human psyche is the ego.

Gone With the Wind

Bodies will be stacked together on battlefields like so much cordwood.

Beach Party

The moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up.

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Pure Hitchcock: tragic and comic at precisely the same instant.

Les Valseuses

Half-wild denizens of “la zone” on the outskirts of a large town.

Is This Heaven?

“I lend myself to the social game, I pose, I know I am posing, I want you to know that I am posing.”

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Sexy, thrilling, and — thanks to the sandwiches — very British indeed.

Creolised Fashion

Brands borrowing from jostled signs, creolised into incomprehension.

Blade Runner

Viewers never question Deckard’s humanity… except, perhaps, during this scene.

Skin Beyond the Sign

Skin becomes a clear and purified channel of free-flowing communication.

Apocalypse Now

In the existential jungle, empathy makes a man fitter for survival. But at what price?

Aging Disgracefully

While the physicality is exaggeratedly old the behavior is emphatically like that of a teenager.