What happens when we decide everyone else is narcissist
When you hear the word “narcissist,” who comes to mind,…
My obsession with a Beatles song
I was the species of moody adolescent who drove people…
The Book gets inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Mind
Early August is traditionally the back shelf of the year’s…
Michel Foucault: From the Ship of Fools to Psychiatric Power
There is a type of knowledge that presents itself as…
Cyclic Patterns of Crisis, Delegitimation, and Elite Exodus
When Power Becomes a Burden: Cyclic Patterns of Crisis, Delegitimation,…
Finnegans Wake – The Quantum Loop of Joyce’s Mind
There is a type of thought that cannot be expressed…
Varanasi: The Sacred Place of “Crossing” and/or the Illusion of “Liberation”
Varanasi (ancient Kāśī), also known as Banaras, is one of…
Dialectic of the Ladder: Wittgenstein, the ‘Tractatus’ and Modernism
Late in his illuminating and useful examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus…
“A Serbian Film”: An Analysis of Transgression and Postmodern Ethics
“A Serbian Film” by Srđan Spasojević: An Analysis of Transgression…
Knife in the Water – Roman Polanski
The Polish-French filmmaker Roman Polanski (Paris, 1933), a highly controversial…
Subjective Records on Conception, Birth, Life, Suicide, and Death
I Birth as an act represents the beginning of the…
Love you from Zero to 7
I’m not a Peca Popović. I just put it all together like this: I didn’t know the lyrics of Destiny until…
About lips, about dreams: when grandma sings, the orchestra cries
I thought I knew that song. My mom sang it the most beautifully, with the piano. She still sings it wonderfully…
David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’: How Berlin Shaped Eclectic 1977 Masterpiece
Fully settled in Berlin, with a work system established and in a far better place, physically and emotionally, than he’d been…
The Birth of Joy Division
The Joy Division story has been told many times, yet it never stops seeming too bizarre to be true. Jon Savage, best known for his…
The Accidental Perfection of the Beatles’ White Album
To mark this month’s fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles’ ninth album, “The Beatles”—universally known as the White Album—several new expanded and enhanced editions…
The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Bound only lightly to the past, it floats…
Why is Seven Samurai so good?
Akira Kurosawa’s epic topped BBC Culture’s poll to find the…
‘Eyes Wide Shut’: A Tense, Nightmarish Exploration of Marriage and Sexuality in Kubrick’s Ultimate Film
Almost a decade passed since Full Metal Jacket hit the…
‘Fight Club’: David Fincher’s stylish exploration of modern-day man’s estrangement and disillusionment
Standing proudly among the ranks of those films whose post-theater,…
Throne of blood: the value and meaning of Kurosawa’s fog-drenched masterpiece
After making Rashomon in 1950, Akira Kurosawa set his eyes…
Alan Parker’s ‘Angel Heart’ Is Astonishing as Hell
English film director Alan Parker was first introduced to William Hjortsberg’s novel…
2001: A Space Odyssey
“There’s something in the human personality which resents things that…
What Makes Vertigo the Best Film of All Time?
Vertigo is the greatest motion picture of all time. Or so…
The Return – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Well, the story begins like this: The promise is promise.…
