The Thirty-Nine Steps
Sexy, thrilling, and — thanks to the sandwiches — very British indeed.
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
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.
The Fifth Element
Leeloo's strength is also her weakness.
Meaningful Luxury
Instructing luxury consumers on the importance and nature of discovery and how to, well, discover it.
The Bad News Bears
In life, as in baseball, things can always get better. Or worse.
Holy Jolie
A fantasy of healing and romantic redemption that’s wildly off the mark.
Taking the Mickey
A marvelous proliferation of Mickey’s meaning.
Raising Arizona
A blank affect can be a canny psychic-survival stratagem.
Ballad of a Thin Man
Is this the end of the road for European serotonin depletion culture?
Nobrow Mickey
“It’s on America’s tortured brow / that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.”