The scariest moment of Bowling for Columbine (2002) was watching the security camera footage of the shootings. Something about seeing that black and white representation of Eric Harris’ and Dylan Klebold’s grainy forms stalking the cafeteria that morning was just plain eerie. Roy ChristopherI marshal the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. Author of The Medium… Continue reading Camera Obscura: Cloverfield and the Myth of Transparency
Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales finally hit DVD this week, and I’ve been soaking it up ever since. It’s a lot to take in and a lot to decipher (as Salon put it, “It’s filled with so many references and so much self-conscious irony that it’s nearly impossible to make sense of it all.”), but I’m… Continue reading Southland Tales: Not with a Whimper, but with a Bang
Just when I thought I’d missed it, The Laurelhurst Theater here in Portland brought Blade Runner: The Final Cut back around (I wasn’t here when it first played, and somehow, I missed the movie’s original release, though during that same time I managed to see all three original Star Wars movies as they came out).… Continue reading Blade Runner Redux
“Through fiction we saw the birth Of futures yet to come Yet in fiction lay the bones, ugly in their nakedness Yet under this mortal sun, we cannot hide ourselves” — Isis, “In Fiction” There’s an episode of The Twilight Zone I watched as a kid that stuck with me. I don’t remember all of… Continue reading Recurring Themes, Part Five: The End of Humanity
“Let us go on outdoing ourselves; a revolutionary man always transcends himself or otherwise he is not a revolutionary man, so we always do what we ask of ourselves or more than we know we can do.” –- Huey P. Newton, Revolutionary Suicide What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library (AK… Continue reading What We Want, What We Believe: The Black Panther Party Library DVD
