Articles Tagged with #movies
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At the Movies
To Chilling Effect
Only the truly trained can accurately describe how despair sounds without a noise filter. A sound technician finishes his horror movie script.
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Gallery
Kodak City
Photographer Catherine Leutenegger chronicles the decline of the Eastman Kodak Corporation and the city built by Big Yellow.
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The Arts Desk
The Übersinner
Reddit’s “Ask Me Anything” interviews—edited for the seven deadly sins—provide an Idolatry of Self so big, it produces Zen koans.
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The Arts Desk
Demolish Me
The present-day lust for ruins is nothing new. In fact, it’s nearly as old as any ruins themselves. From a flattened Louvre to Percy Bysshe Shelley, a journey to the dawn of ruin porn.
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Pulpheads
The Unofficial Roger Ebert Reader on Addiction
When Roger Ebert died, America was deprived of one of its finest critics. We also lost one of our best writers on addiction.
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Our Passions, Our Day Jobs
Tale of the Transcription Tape
Sometimes a love scene calls for [WHIMPERS], sometimes it needs [YELPS], but knowing which one to use makes all the difference. The secret life of a professional closed captioner.
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Cat Stays in the Picture
Giving Up the Cat
After seeing Inside Llewyn Davis I just had one question: Where was that cat supposed to pee?
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And I Feel Fine
That’s All Folks
Every generation gets the fictional doomsday it desires. What we learned during our dystopian, end-of-the-world summer vacation at the movies.
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Disarmed
Heartplunger
A childhood ban on toy guns didn’t erase the specter of death from a neighborhood.
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Roundtables
It’s the End of the World as We’ve Known It
Good old Earth was nearly destroyed, almost extinguished, and threatened with slaughter every hour in cinemas this summer. And yet, here we are. Our film critics pinpoint the collapse of the apocalypse genre.
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Love Your Dress
A Woman for All Seasons
Reviewers of Chuck Klosterman’s I Wear The Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) all like to relate Klosterman’s theory of Star Wars. The theory...
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Love Your Dress
Paint by Number
The Hours follows a single day in the lives of three women—the author Virginia Woolf; Laura Brown, a pregnant stay-at-home mom living in a California suburb in the 195...