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Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSARat on the Monument I love Spotlight because I know the cost of breaking silence. I love Good Will Hunting because I’ve loved men who cannot pay it.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSACrisis in Blue In Michael Mann's Heat , both Neil (De Niro) and Vincent (Pacino) are dedicated to their respective work, their respective codes.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAWhat Are Four Walls, Anyway? Once upon a time they did make movies about us, and they starred Diane Lane. In 2002, at age 36, she played Connie in Unfaithful , and in 2003, at 37, she played Frances in Under the Tuscan Sun .
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSASeconds on Seconds: Resurrection in Face and Film If John Frankenheimer's Seconds came out today, with its horror lens firmly trained on themes of extreme plastic surgery, dread of aging, and get-happy-quick schemes, it would likely have found a…
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAEpisode #73: Another Round (with Karina Wolf) This month, Chad and Elizabeth sit down with author Karina Wolf to discuss midlife crisis and Thomas Vinterberg's 2020 film, Another Round.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAI Hate Cul-de-Sacs Why does Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) choose to spend his vacation at home? It’s the great secret at the master bedroom closet-heart of The ’Burbs .
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSADeath of the Cool Mann’s cinema is that of love and longing on a life-and-death scale—all that matters are the compressed moments we have in which to share it.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAMe and Superman, Too: A Metropolis Memoir What I’ve grown to appreciate is that Superman II is really a movie about the necessity of Superman as an American myth—about the very meaning of Superman.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAStale Popcorn: Reflections on the Failed Blockbuster More often than not, the blockbuster bomb is true of heart, true of passion, and truly, deliriously confounding.
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSASongs for the Newly Dead With Zeus's Law under threat, The Odyssey completes Nolan’s run of films about the end of the world, with each reflecting the way that each generation—perhaps his own most of all—has doomed our…
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSAEpisode #72: The Hunt for Red October (with Chris Cantwell) This month writer, producer, director, and showrunner Chris Cantwell ( Halt and Catch Fire, The Terror: Devil in Silver ) joins us for a deep dive into the 1990 Sean Connery classic, The Hunt for Red…
Bright Wall/Dark RoomUSABlimps and Pimpernels: Powell and Pressburger and the Myth of Britishness Over the two decades of their collaboration, the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger emerged as the working out of a love affair with Britain and Britishness.
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