The A-Z of Geek Cinema: Z is for Zardoz
How does one even put Zardoz into words? I mean this quite seriously. The “arc words” of the film (to borrow a phrase from TV Tropes) is “The gun is good, the penis is...
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How does one even put Zardoz into words? I mean this quite seriously. The “arc words” of the film (to borrow a phrase from TV Tropes) is “The gun is good, the penis is...
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POP QUIZ: what Beatles movie doesn’t even feature the Beatles for more than a handful of minutes? ANSWER: Yellow Submarine, the 1968 animated musical fantasmagoria based on the Lennon/McCartney song of the same name....
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The opening scene of a film is super-important. Like the opening paragraph of a book, or the cold open of a television show, its purpose is two-fold: to grab the audience’s attention, and to...
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Let us now sit in praise of Darren Aronofsky. One of my favorite directors working today, Â and one whose (still growing) film oeuvre is extremely varied, while showing a remarkable amount of consistency, in...
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David Cronenberg’s scifi/horror film Videodrome plays in the fields he often did early in his career: body horror, flesh mechanics, the external reflecting the internal. But in Videodrome, he did so with a larger...
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This is a manly goddamn movie. Brian de Palma’s film of David Mamet’s script is, and I don’t use this word often, epic. The operatic sweep of the cinematography and the extremely quotable screenplay...
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Music in film is important. It can define a mood. It can provide counterpoint. It can even, in the case of musicals, provide plot. At its best, a film’s score enhances the rest of...
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Let us speak now in praise of Speed Racer. No, I’m serious. 2008’s Speed Racer, written and directed by the Wachowskis. Fresh off the Matrix films, the (then) brothers took ahold of the long...
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Wes Anderson creates worlds. Most films of his belong to their own environment, with little to no connection to the reality we all belong to. This is true, even more than the others, of...
Motion City Soundtrack have had this pattern in their album releases, I’ve noticed. Discounting their first album, I Am The Movie (which was recorded and released & rereleased in fits and starts over a...