Already in this set of posts we’ve looked at Frank Miller’s career before The Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1 and 2), and performed close readings of that series’ respective four chapters (Parts 3, 4, 5, and 6). And the last time around, in Part 7, we examined the character of Batman both before and after [...]
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Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception (AKA, All Knowledge Isn’t Equal)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Can Negative Publicity Help?", Against Interpretation, Alain Resnais, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alan T. Sorensen, Annette Atkins, Ari Up, Banksy, Batman, Britney Spears, David Bordwell, Down with Love, Film Art, Frank Kermode, Frank Miller, Greg Gerke, Harry Mathews, Hollis Frampton, Inception, Jack Horkheimer, James Peterson, Jean Luc Godard, Jeremy M. Davies, Jonah Berger, Kristin Thompson, Last Year at Marienbad, Mai 68, mnemonics, Peter Wyngarde, Peyton Reed, Rose Alley, Scott J. Rasmussen, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Steve Katz, Susan Sontag, Tao Lin, teaching history backwards, The Sense of an Ending, Zorn's Lemma on November 14, 2010 | 10 Comments »
[This can be considered a response to this post, and its comments thread.] 1. You’ve just become the fiction editor of a small journal. You open your email and see that you’ve received 1,000 unsolicited submissions. The first ten were sent by: Carlos Shirley Jeanne Goss Jack Livingston Christine Stribling Melissa Mathieu Benjamin Tatro Tao [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 6
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged apocalypse, Batman, Batman XXX, Corto Maltese, Frank Kermode, Frank Miller, Lynn Varley, nuclear winter, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Sense of an Ending, Theory of Prose, Viktor Shklovsky, Vivid Entertainment on June 28, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 7 | Part 8 Greetings again after much too long a while. Since the last installment in this series, the new pornographers at Vivid have announced, written, shot, and released Batman XXX: A Porn Parody, so it’s well past [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 5
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Batman: Dead End, Corto Maltese, David Letterman, Frank Miller, Hugo Pratt, Neal Adams, Orson Welles, Ronald Reagan, Superman, The Dark Knight Returns, The Lady from Shanghai on April 14, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Monday was David Letterman‘s birthday, making this an okey-dokey time to talk about Book Three of The Dark Knight Returns, “Hunt the Dark Knight”… Let’s plunge right into it!
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 3
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, DC Comics, Frank Miller, Lynn Varley, scott mccloud, The Dark Knight Returns, The Dark Knight Strikes Again, The Mark of Zorro, Understanding Comics on March 15, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Part one of this series surveyed Miller’s comics work prior to his landmark 1986 miniseries Batman: The Dark Knight Returns; part two summarized the innovations in printing technology that Miller and his colorist Lynn Varley [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Batman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Detective Comics, Dick Giordano, Frank Miller, Hergé, Klaus Janson, Lynne Varley, Ronin, scott mccloud, The Dark Knight Returns, Tintin, Understanding Comics, Watchmen, X-Men on February 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 Frank Miller released the sixth and last issue of Ronin in August 1984. Not everyone was sure what to make of the limited series, but Miller and his colorist, Lynn Varley, emerged from the project [...]
Reading Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, part 1
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 300, A Contract with God, Batman, Chris Claremont, comics, cyberpunk, Daredevil, DC, Elektra, First Comics, Frank Miller, Gold Key, Goseki Kojima, graphic novels, Harvey Kurtzman, Jenette Kahn, Kazuo Koike, Lone Wolf and Cub, Lynn Varley, manga, Marvel Comics, Robert Crumb, Robert Rodriguez, Ronalds Printing, Ronin, Sin City, The Comics Journal, The Dark Knight Returns, The Spirit, Uncanny X-Men, will eisner, Wolverine, Zack Snyder on January 23, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 These days, Frank Miller is arguably best-known as a filmmaker. He co-directed Robert Rodriguez’s adaptation of his long-running comic Sin City (1991–present), which he followed with his own peculiar 2008 adaptation of Will Eisner’s classic [...]
My Favorite New Movies of 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Agnès Varda, Andrzej Wajda, Antichrist, Bill Murray, Bradley Beesley, Bright Star, Bruno Delbonnel, Chaos Reigns, Chris Marker, Christian Petzold, Christmas on Mars, Christoph Waltz, David Mamet, David Yates, Fanny Brawne, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Frank Miller, George Salisbury, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Hayao Miyazaki, Il Divo, Inglourious Basterds, J.J. Abrams, Jane Campion, Jerichow, John Keats, Katyń, Lars von Trier, Les Plages d’Agnès, Mike Stoklasa, Nicolas Roeg, Nightwatching, Oren Peli, Paolo Sorrentino, Paranormal Activity, Peter Greenaway, Ponyo, Puffball, Quentin Tarantino, Redbelt, Rembrandt, Richard Kelly, Ricky Jay, Rita Tushingham, sexism, Star Trek, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review, The Beaches of Agnes, The Box, The Spirit, torture porn, Tsai Ming-Liang, Visage (Face), Watchmen, Wayne Coyne, Wes Anderson, Whatever Works, Woody Allen, Zack Snyder on December 31, 2009 | 21 Comments »
[Update: 2010 is here] Here are my favorite new movies of 2009, like you care. I’m drawing from the films I saw in the theater this year, some of which were “officially” released a year or two ago. But they’re all new. …So, Mr. Cranky, what did you like?
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