Jul 31
Comics, Film batman, christopher nolan, Film, frank miller 5 Comments
I am a Batman fan. I discovered the comic books when I was a kid and found that in certain hands (Allan Moore and Frank Miller, for instance) the character could be used for actual literature. In the past the Batman movies have been crap.
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Jun 18
Recently I read a list of “movies you must see before you die”. It was idiotic. The person who compiled the list obviously had a stunning lack of taste and sense. So I want to offer my own list of movies that you must see.
1. Fellini Satyricon
2. The Third Man
3. Blue Velvet
4. Brazil
5. Dawn of the Dead
6. Audition
7. 2001 A Space Odyssey
8. Once Upon a Time in the West
9. Blade Runner
10. Network
11. La Haine
12. Antichrist
13. Duck Soup
14. Breathless
15. Blood Simple
16. Manhattan
17. Dr. Strangelove
18. The Discrete Charm of the Bourgeoisie
19. Visitor Q
20. Citizen Kane
21. Lady from Shanghai
22. The Hustler
23. Alien
24. Apocalypse Now
25. The 400 Blows
26. City of Lost Children
I limited myself to 26 but this list could run into the hundreds. So, tell me what I’ve missed and what I’ve included that you think should be omitted. Argue with me.
Mar 03
Film, Review day of the dead, dualism, Film, idealism, land of the dead, materialism, philosophy, romero 2 Comments
The New Flesh: A Post-Postmodernist Review of the Mind-Body Problem as a Theme in George A. Romero’s Films Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead.
Philosophers have long wrestled with what has come to be known as the “Mind-Body Problem;” the question of whether we, as humans, are merely physical, material creatures or if we are possessed of some non-physical mind (soul or spirit are often used synonymously with mind). This open question has developed into one of the greatest schisms in the history of modern thought. The partisans in this battle are aligned on three sides: materialists, dualists and idealists. The eminent auteur George A. Romero has quite brilliantly aligned himself on the materialist side of this fight with the latter entries in his Dead film series. A careful watching of both Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead makes this point almost excruciatingly clear.
