Category: Post
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The Runner
1 Heather never ran, back home. She had done field hockey and volleyball in high school, but never took it further than that. Maybe Zumba or pilates on occasion. But when she moved abroad to do a funded PhD with Dr. Prof. Hendriks, it seemed the right time to join the millennial post-30 diaspora and…
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“I didn’t think he was really this bad” – what we wish they would finally admit
I can only come at this from my personal relationship to the main currents in American thought. I don’t know how many others followed my own precise trajectory, probably a few. But I do know that some never felt there was a trajectory at all, and are now gloating that their first reaction was correct,…
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Alex Garland and Jacques Rancière Walk Into a Bar
Setting the Scene The reviews of Alex Garland’s Warfare are essentially unanimous: it is a good film. The arguments that ensued upon its release were not about its cinematography, sound design, tension, atmosphere, performances, or any of the things that make for an impactful aesthetic experience. No, the arguments boiled down to a rather simple question about…
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Review: The Talented Mr. Ripley
Should you be angry, or afraid? The varied and disparate covers of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley seem to playfully mirror the types of story Tom Ripley would choose to believe about himself. A man lost in a void, a man pining for an identity capable of love, a man overlooking Mongibello, Italy. In the most…
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Writer’s Diary 003: I’m not sure if structure is real
Is “structure” in the room with us right now? If filmtok and filmstagram reels have their say, anyone even remotely interested in movies will soon memorize every line of improvised dialogue in Hollywood history, every instance of when “the director just kept on rolling,” and, presumably, the rules of filmmaking. Saying that a movie has…
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