Category Archives: film

Completely Unreliable Assholes

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Reverend

In a movie filled with some truly great moments, this inane exchange between Halloran and Larry might be where you can see/hear Kubrick in The Shining most clearly. Plus, the office details remind me of the Console Living Room exhibit … Continue reading →

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Moral Endings in Cain’s Postman Always Rings Twice

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Reverend

Picking up on my last post about the broader crisis of existential meaning in Hemingway’s “The Killers” for noir 106, it might be be interesting to look  at James M. Cain’s 1934 novella The Postman Always Rings Twice. I this reading I was struck by the deeply perverse … Continue reading →

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Filthy Hippie Noir

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Reverend

I saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice (2014) last night. I enjoyed it. I just ordered Thomas Pynchon’s novel it was based on because I’m interested in how he adapted the original. I haven’t really been interested in Pynchon since undergrad. … Continue reading →

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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Reverend

@jimgroom Bava Snob — Martin Weller (@mweller) October 27, 2014 I try not to be, but whenever I see a Dario Argento film it’s hard not to compare his work to the master, Mario Bava. And with such a pairing, Argento always … Continue reading →

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International Horror Comes to Culpeper: Four Flies on Gray Velvet and Thriller

Posted on September 29, 2014 by Reverend

On October 25th the Library of Congress, Packard Campus will be showing Dario Argento’s 1972 film Four Flies on Gray Velvet. The following description of this trippy film is taken from Wikipedia: Roberto Tobias (Brandon) is a drummer in a … Continue reading →

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Hitchcock Motifs

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Reverend

UMW Art History professor JeanAnn Dabb is teaching a Freshman Seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. Few subjects in this world are more compelling than Hitchcock’s films, and it’s hard to think of a better excuse to run a course blog. So, that’s … Continue reading →

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Rotisserie Chicken

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Reverend

Yesterday was a fairly quiet April Fool’s Day. I didn’t see much on Twitter, didn’t read any scam newspaper articles/ads, and the folks on UMW’s campus didn’t seem to be feeling it either. That’s fine with me. Good pranks are … Continue reading →

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The Academic GIF

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Reverend

I wrote several months ago about the experience of working alongside UMW’s Chinese History scholar Sue Fernsebner to start imagining how she might integrate animated GIFs into a curriculum centered around film analysis. I tongue-and-cheek referred to it as GIFiculum, or GIF … Continue reading →

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Goodfellas: I’m Here to Amuse You

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Reverend

I’ve written before about love of Tumblr before on this blog, and one of the most consistently brilliant Tumblr blogs I follow is the all-things-film tumblr Cinephilia and Beyond. If you love movies, this is an amazing resource. Anyway, over … Continue reading →

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Filmfax ode to the legendary Ray Harryhausen

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Reverend

  Just got the latest issue of Filmfax, and look what greeted me on the cover: the late, great Ray Harryhausen painting a miniature of Medusa from Clash of the Titans (1981). The article features an excellent interview by Mike … Continue reading →

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