Metaphilm

I’ll take my clothes off, and it will be shameless…

2012-01-23T17:35:00Z

...Cuz everyone knows, that’s how you get famous.

The Descendants on the Couch

2012-01-18T04:07:00Z

... of The Last Psychiatrist. You may not be a terrible person, but you may be better able to understand why you liked American Beauty and Indecent Proposal so much.

Cinemetrics

2012-01-12T23:31:01Z

This is what movies look like in one vibrating, colorized, sliced and diced symbolic image: interesting.

“Nuked the Fridge” is the new “Jumped the Shark”

2011-11-16T00:27:01Z

Straight from the horse’s mouth.

You Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover, but You CAN Judge A Movie By Its Poster

2011-11-08T18:01:00Z

13 Movie poster patterns and what they tell us about the likelihood of what’s in the film. Unless of course, the film has Tilda Swinton…

These are the movies of The Moviegoer

2011-10-15T16:22:00Z

In order of their appearance in Walker Percy’s 1961 novel: Stage Coach, The Third Man, Panic in the Streets, It Happened One Night, Red River, Holiday, The Oxbow Incident, All Quiet On the Western Front, Fort Dobbs, Dark Waters, The Young Philadelphians. And this is the conference celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its publication.

Hollywood Star Makes Good

2011-10-10T16:07:00Z

We love a happy ending: Cinema, the new cathedral, leads one unique soul back to the original Cathedral.

Synecdoche, New York

2011-09-24T16:09:00Z

Metaphilm fan and filmmaker Cody Clarke has some thoughts on Synecdoche, New York as doing what The Social Network failed to do in exploring the metaphysics of Facebook. Thanks, Cody!

Truman Burbank, Call Your Office, STAT

2011-09-16T13:54:01Z

This is indeed ”an unusual occurrence.”

Brent Plate Gets Even Closer to the Core of The Tree of Life

2011-08-23T17:42:00Z

Worth your time: S. Brent Plate’s meditations on The Tree of Life. See also this piece.

Life Imitates Art Which Imitates Life

2011-08-19T00:03:00Z

Keeping up with The Joneses just got harder.

Hell Burns for The Tree of Life

2011-07-29T20:21:01Z

Sister Helena has, so far, the best analysis yet of The Tree of Life.

Slavoj Zizek Goes to See Transformers

2011-07-25T18:26:00Z

"I have been to terrible films before. There is always something worth seeing.” By “terrible” we take Zizek to mean directed by Michael Bay.

On Wii and the Myth of Boredom

2011-06-30T19:22:00Z

Say the title a few times, you’ll get it. It’s in the details with Uji Films, former co-founder of Metaphilm and now a filmmaker.

Overheard on Twitter

2011-05-30T15:28:01Z

@craigmod: Exercise: Replace names as needed, read reviews of The Tree of Life as reviews for The Hangover II.