“A man got to have a code.” — Omar Little from The Wire If there’s one contribution to cinema that Jean-Pierre Melville is most certainly “guilty” of, it would be his characters. Stoic anti-heroes, existential killers, and methodical men seem to pop up as the protagonists in so many of his films. It was the director’s… Read more »
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald “Don’t get too hung up in classification of good and bad, because truly interesting is where it’s at.” — Quentin Tarantino Beyond the Valley of the… Read more »
Guest post by Ben Taylor. The love Americans have for our automobiles may be a century-old cultural fixture, but it doesn’t mean that the way we design our public spaces—our streets and cities, the places we play and work—can’t have a significant effect on the degree to which we are willing to change. It may… Read more »
“Do pretty pictures plus symbols equal art?” — Pauline Kael on the film Blow-Up Alejandro Jodorowsky is a man who deals in symbols, which is almost a silly thing to say considering that almost all artists are in some way working with linguistic, physical, or aural means to convey a larger point. Jodorowsky however is… Read more »