"Run Lola Run": A Byzantine Narrative and A Box Office Hit
For Thomas Elsaesser, what he calls the “mind-game film” is not just about narrative experimentation. Rather, like film noir, it is...
“Singin’ in the Rain" and "Illusions": the Segregated Reality of Film Production
Both Singin’ in the Rain (1952) and "Illusions" (1982) are meta-texts on the technological manipulation behind sound film and...
Jim Jarmusch's Poetry of Post-Modernity
In a review of Jim Jarmusch’s Stranger Than Paradise (1984), New York Times critic, Vincent Canby, commented with ironic admiration that...