Chess Set (2)
Those who demand and expect the very best.
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
Chess Set (1)
The new Marlboro man.
Madigan
The cops are society’s super-ego, the girl is its id.
The Mack
Dandyism and flâneurie as radical/misguided street theater.
It Happened One Night
“Awww, I like mushy stuff!”
Eraserhead
Replete with images of loneliness, tedium, and paranoia.
Breaking Away
They have no repertoire of bromantic chest-bumps.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Conveying emotional idealism via cluttered, awkward blocking.
Harold and Maude
She is wisdom, love, joy.
Repo Man
Otto will transcend the far too limiting punk-hippie dichotomy.
The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
Future Peril
How to talk to people 10,000 years in the future.
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.