Category: film theory
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French New Wave Cinema, Meet Top Chef
I was catching up with my old lover TiVo last night, having been occupied every night for the past week and a half (by the end of this busy stretch, I’ll have had daily & nightly obligations for a solid two weeks). Top priorities: America’s Next Top Model and Top Chef. Top Chef‘s episode of […]
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I Know What You Did Last Weekend
Last night I paid money to see a Lindsay Lohan movie and I didn’t even regret it. I Know Who Killed Me seems to want to be your typical revived-sniff film along the lines of the recent Captivity: young girl in trouble, is tortured by an unseen man for his enjoyment, etc. But it takes […]
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On Kaja Silverman’s Notion of "Suture" in Film Theory
Silverman writes, of suture, that the construction of the cinematic film as a physical object creates a kind of anxiety for the viewer. Because the image is bound on all sides by the periphery of the camera, the viewer’s point of view is limited, reduced, fixed. And because the images are “stitched together” on the […]
Charles Jensen | Writer 