[Note: Some number of previous Feature Friday films—7/20, I think—have since disappeared from YouTube. Such is the nature of gray…
Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
In my last post on this topic, I argued that cinema can be redefined as “the cinematic arts,” which would…
The Barthelme Problem
[This post is something of a response to John’s recent post, and some of the comments made there by Darby,…
Style as Imitation
1. My father, who once trained as a baker, taught me when I was a kid how to bake an…
Notes on Twee, part 2: The Crash Test Dummies (Those Avant-Garde Harbingers of Mainstream Superheroes, School Plays, and the Willful Embrace of Nostalgia)
In my last post in this series, I embedded and linked to every single music video I know that uses…