Lost Souls Swimming in a Fish Bowl
Andrew
I spent much of this weekend (Sept. 29 – 30, 2012) at ScareFest in Lexington, KY. It’s a convention for horror fans and ghost hunters. I’ve written about the latter,…
Film and Media
Resident Dredd: Summer-Ending Superlatives
According to the most recent data I’ve found online, the movie Dredd didn’t do well in first-weekend box-office returns, but I’m willing to risk the usual condescension of fellow academic…
Last House on the Left: Old-Fashioned Eyefuls
My course “The American Horror Film Since 1960” was cancelled today for a university function, so the two-class discussion of Last House on the Left (1972) has to be whittled…
Music and brass: La vie est belle
The University of Louisville kicked off the 2012 – 2013 Postcolonial Film Series today with La vie est belle (Life Is Rosy, 1987). Not knowing a lot about African film–or…
Dancing the “Ballet Mecanique”
response to class discussion of the French experimental film “Le Ballet Mecanique” (1924) For the last couple of years, I’ve been inching toward acceptance of the so-called “experimental” tradition in…