Bright Wall/Dark Room
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Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAYour Application Was Rejected David Fincher's The Game is a modern-day parable: an existential dread-induced morality play meticulously designed to drag a cold-hearted, Scrooge-ish fat cat down to the Twilight Zone-y pits of…
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAEpisode #74: Donnie Darko (with Bilge Ebiri) On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its release, and just in time for Halloween, we sit down with the inimitable film critic and essayist Bilge Ebiri to celebrate Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko .
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSABengali Boys II Men: Evidence and Absence in Days and Nights in the Forest The interplay between evidence and absence is a powerful, often invisible force in Satyajit Ray’s deceptively simple Days and Nights In the Forest (1970).
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAIt Never Ends That Way, Too Sitting with the light of Over the Hedge flickering in my fixed, quiet living room, I feel like I’m rewilding the space around me, recovering the bouncing commotion and the embrace of flux.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSARat on the Monument I love Spotlight because I know the cost of breaking silence. I love Good Will Hunting because I’ve loved men who cannot pay it.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSACrisis in Blue In Michael Mann's Heat , both Neil (De Niro) and Vincent (Pacino) are dedicated to their respective work, their respective codes.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAWhat Are Four Walls, Anyway? Once upon a time they did make movies about us, and they starred Diane Lane. In 2002, at age 36, she played Connie in Unfaithful , and in 2003, at 37, she played Frances in Under the Tuscan Sun .
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSASeconds on Seconds: Resurrection in Face and Film If John Frankenheimer's Seconds came out today, with its horror lens firmly trained on themes of extreme plastic surgery, dread of aging, and get-happy-quick schemes, it would likely have found a…
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAEpisode #73: Another Round (with Karina Wolf) This month, Chad and Elizabeth sit down with author Karina Wolf to discuss midlife crisis and Thomas Vinterberg's 2020 film, Another Round.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAI Hate Cul-de-Sacs Why does Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) choose to spend his vacation at home? It’s the great secret at the master bedroom closet-heart of The ’Burbs .
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSADeath of the Cool Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAMe and Superman, Too: A Metropolis Memoir What I’ve grown to appreciate is that Superman II is really a movie about the necessity of Superman as an American myth—about the very meaning of Superman.
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