Year of the Month: THE MISFITS and Hollywood Modernism
The Misfits epitomizes a certain type of Hollywood modernist aesthetic: a film about Big Ideas…
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:
“A Man Alone”: John Bruni and Son of Griff on THE BREAKING POINT and TRY AND GET ME! (Year of the Month)
JB: Noir has always challenged dominant cultural values, and, at times, can capture the light…
Noir Vs. Noire: Son of Griff and John Bruni on CITY OF QUARTZ, THE TWO JAKES, and TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (Year of the Month)
“Ugly buildings, politicians and whores all become respectable when they get old enough” …
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…
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…