Neil Young’s HOMEGROWN, a Lost-70s Look at the Wages of Love, Now Available
These last few weeks have been a good time for recovering lost-70s treasures. Last Friday…
John Bruni
John Bruni teaches at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. His book, Scientific Americans: The Making of Popular Science and Evolution in Early-20th-Century U.S. Literature and Culture, was published by University of Wales Press in 2014. His second book, Astonishment and Recognition: Observing Systems in the Films of John Cassavetes, is under review at Fordham University Press.
Articles:
HUSBANDS: A Restored Argument about Social Role Playing
At long last, Criterion has released its version of Husbands (1970), continuing its tradition of…
Year of the Month: MINNIE AND MOSKOWITZ Is an Earthly Love Story
“Seymour Moskowitz is the new symbol of hope in America” Leave it to John Cassavetes…
Year of the Month: Under the Influence of Cassavetes – MARGOT AT THE WEDDING
With the news that John Cassavetes’s Husbands (perhaps my all-time favorite film) is getting the…
The Year in Review: The Power of Negative Thinking
While class issues became even more prominent in 2019 than they were a year before,…
Year of the Month: Notes on THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS
I. Directed and co-written by Gillo Pontecorvo, the representation of the Algerian fight for independence…
Year of the Month: “Well by Seventy-Six We’ll Be A-OK” – The Cool Retro-Future of THE NIGHTFLY
Conspicuously absent from the first post-Steely Dan release from Donald Fagen is the cutting mockery…
Year of the Month: Randy Newman, GOOD OLD BOYS and the Southern Political Legacy
Although my top-10 records list is constantly changing, Good Old Boys will always have a…
Year of the Month: CRAZY HEART and Walking Hard
To properly contextualize Crazy Heart, we have to go back two years. In 2007, Walk…
Year of the Month: The Cultural Work of ALL THE KING’S MEN
I’m very interested in the cultural work films do, that is, how the conditions of…