Some movies just stay with you. Admittedly, I didn’t rewatch The Last Unicorn over and over as I did with more mainstream animated classics like…
The Film Canon
A series of articles and reviews of older movies that have entered, well, the film canon, for being creatively or culturally important. Everything from Citizen Kane to The Breakfast Club to Fargo to The Dark Knight. So we can all create a diverse list of essential movies for the young folk cinephiles to watch
The Film Canon: Bad Lieutenant
Bad Lieutenant, set in a particularly grimy-looking New York, lugs around enough Catholic-guilt, crooked cops, cocaine snorting and a somewhat-conscio…
The Film Canon: The Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg has long established himself to be a maverick in the world of film since his humble beginnings in the 1970s. From a career perspectiv…
A Scanner Darkly: 10 Year Anniversary
In the author’s note of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly the author states, “drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the dec…
The Film Canon: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Among the biggest negative effects of the auteur theory is the idea that filmmakers are knowable; that every director not only has a distinctive influ…
The Film Canon: Funny Games (1997)
Upon first viewing of Funny Games I was certain this was a film made by a clever provocateur of sorts. My suspicions were wrong, as Funny Games is ver…
The Film Canon: Phone Booth (2002)
Just because you can’t make something work right now, doesn’t mean it won’t work out somewhere down the line. Such is the story behi…