Year of the Month: CRAZY HEART and Walking Hard
To properly contextualize Crazy Heart, we have to go back two years. In 2007, Walk…
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: 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…
Year of the Month: Watching THE NEW AGE from the Point of No Return
There may be no better time to rediscover The New Age. It takes dead aim…
A Star Is Torn: HER SMELL Takes Us on a Wild Ride
Written and directed by Alex Ross Perry, Her Smell is a uniquely fictionalized take on…
Year of the Month: In Glorious Mono, ONLY THE LONELY
In October of last year, Only the Lonely was reissued in a 60th anniversary stereo…
Year of the Month: ADVISE AND CONSENT
Advise and Consent is a notable example of subtext—Gay Panic—overpowering the text. Envisioned as a…
The Year in Review: Class Issues
Two years ago, the pivotal events were the public support for Brexit and the election…
Year of the Month: YOU CAN COUNT ON ME
A major reason that Manchester by the Sea (2016) felt like somewhat of a letdown…
Year of the Month: Fleetwood Mac, TUSK
Tusk is an essential part of what I call the Instant Vinyl Record Collection, because…
Year of the Month: TROUBLE IN PARADISE Is a Lesson in the “Lubitsch Touch”
Imagine you’re a film director planning out a romantic comedy about a love triangle of…