Year of the Month: Randy Newman’s LAND OF DREAMS Produces Nightmares
Land of Dreams contains both one of Randy Newman’s all-time best and worst songs –…
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:
Year of the Month: FOREVER CHANGES and a “Bummer in the Summer (of Love)”
In attendance at a 1968 recording session for the Doors, Joan Didion called them “missionaries…
Year of the Month: The Disorientation of Joanna Newsom’s YS
In an interview, following the release of Ys, Newsom said that the ending of “Monkey…
Year of the Month: Tequila and Hamburgers – The Making of Neil Young’s TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT
Tequila and hamburgers. That was the input – Neil Young* After Time Fades Away (1973),…
Year of the Month: Owning the Night Life in THE MAN I LOVE
The Man I Love has a memorable first scene: when they hear the music playing…
Year of the Month: Deconstructing 1971 – TWO-LANE BLACKTOP/THE LAST MOVIE
The cultural shorthand for early-70s American filmmaking is that directors had a significant degree of…
Year of the Month: Losing Time in CERTIFIED COPY
Juliette Binoche has a knack for taking us to emotionally-layered places. As Elle, in the…
Year of the Month: “Home At Last”? Steely Dan Arrives on AJA
In 1977, the musical world at large finally caught up with Steely Dan. Up until…
The Year in Review: Seeing the Music
At the start of March, a deadly tornado missed where I was staying in East…
Year of the Month: “To the Outerzone” – MILLIONS NOW LIVING WILL NEVER DIE
“Almost as soon as ‘rock’ consolidated its identity in the late Sixties, there’s been post-or…