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Rogue Cinema Archive
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Favorites: Farenheit 451
Existentialism, beauty, truth, censorship — in Andy’s hands, Rogue Cinema was never about spending a few entertaining hours in the... -
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
[Guest Post from Starfoxy, as part of the Doves & Serpents and The Exponent Blog Swap. Starfoxy blogs at The... -
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I am here one day, and on the next, I am gone. Yet I am part of a community, a... -
The Rabbit Hole
Today’s guest post was written by Amanda Mixon, a graduate student of English at Texas State University in San Marcos,... -
The Tree of Life
The Tree of Life begins with a quotation from The Book of Job: “Where were you when I laid the... -
Mormon Film Pioneers
I believe we have stories to tell and if we don’t do it, it will be done for us. -
Eat, Bray, Shove: Two Men’s Mimicry, Mockery and Mastication Across Northern England
What would you get if the producers of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” combined “My Dinner with Andre ” and “Easy Rider”... -
Considering James Bond in a Post-Mad Men World
You, the audience, look through the barrel of an assassin’s rifle at a circular white space as a smartly dressed... -
Winter’s Bone
Among its confluence of forces and traditions, it is impossible to ignore that the mythological potential of America is enabled,... -
Men On Film
As part of this week’s discussion on “Mature Masculinity,” I thought I’d take a closer look at films and television... -
I Love the Smell of K-Y Warming Jelly ® in the Morning, or, Marital Apocalypse Delayed
Although best known for “The Seventh Seal” and other serious “art house” films, I suggest Ingmar Bergman’s best work is... -
Gosford Park
After recently bingeing on the award-winning and critically acclaimed BBC mini-series Downton Abbey, the drama-comedy Gosford Park caught my eye... -
Papa, Watch me Fly!
On Sunday nights, we gather all the piles of clean laundry into the living room and fold it while watching... -
Tina Fey’s Arithmetic Mean Girl
Does anyone remember the ABC After School Specials that ran from 1972–1997? I do. In fact I remember once fantasizing... -
30something
No week-long love fest of Tina Fey is complete without a discussion (however incomplete) of her hit-ish show, 30 Rock.... -
Diary of a Wimpy Mom
A promise is a promise, or so my kids said, even if I really didn’t want to take them to... -
The Saviors of Soul Revisited
In 1997, some twenty years after his notoriously iconoclastic conversion to Christianity, when asked what he then believed, Bob... -
A Spoonful of Sugar
Or how the ‘Making of Mary Poppins’ documentary included on the 25th Anniversary DVD restored my hope and sweetened my... -
Before Sunset
For Jesse and Céline these questions are embodied in a single night and in each other. But the question of... -
Before Sunrise
An American man meets a French woman on a train in Europe. They connect and get off together in Vienna... -
Oklahoma!
The first part of a two-post analysis of the dream of the American West, through a particularly successful 1955 movie... -
Magnolia
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia (1999) shows us (to use David Lynch’s words:) people ‘in trouble’. Like Altman’s Short Cuts, the... -
Kevin Smith: ‘Dogma’
When Dogma (1999) was first released, it was met with all the usual protestors: the Harry-Potter-book-burners, who hadn’t bothered to... -
The Big Lebowski
‘Sometimes there’s a man. . . and he’s the man for his time and place.’ The Big Lebowski (1998) is... -
Tarkio Balloon
A special guest post today featuring the short documentary ‘Tarkio Balloon. The film is the first in ‘The Lost and... -
The Fountain
How much recompense can mythology — or even the scientific comforts of persistence of the body — provide in the... -
American Beauty
Recently ‘Rogue Cinema’ took a foray into the dark world of David Lynch’s films, to explore his disturbing presentations of... -
Moon
Today’s post on ‘Rogue Cinema’ is a collaboration between Matt and Andy. “WHERE ARE WE NOW?” If you’ve seen 2001:... -
Black Swan
Today’s post is from a guest that we’ll call ‘White Cygnet’. I didn’t expect Black Swan to strike at my... -
David Lynch: ‘Inland Empire’
‘What time is it?’ ‘It’s after midnight.’ In one of the key, echoed scenes of Inland Empire (2006), Laura Dern’s... -
David Lynch: ‘Eraserhead’
The chicken on the table isn’t dead. The baby is perhaps a cow fetus. And Henry has to raise it... -
David Lynch: ‘Lost Highway’
If we are no longer what society tells us: then who are we? And how can we be trusted? -
The Spirit of the Beehive
Who could ever draw the lines that would separate the material world and the worlds of the imagination? For children,... -
The Conformist
Nobody would want to be called a ‘Fascist’. Unless, of course, you’re living in 1930’s Italy: the world of Bernardo... -
Robert Altman: ‘Short Cuts’
If this film is a set of ‘short cuts’, then we might ask: ‘where to?’, and ‘what to avoid?’ -
Woody Allen: ‘Crimes and Misdemeanors’
It would be difficult to overestimate how important the movies of Woody Allen have been in my life. That makes... -
Fahrenheit 451
Truffaut’s famous adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 begins with a strange and stern voice-over against coloured close-ups... -
The Visitor
I’m not a movie critic, but I do see lots of movies. I’m not picky. I’ll see a “chick flick”... -
A Christmas Tale
Some films leave you with a feeling that you have experienced something solid and illuminating that will stay with... -
Revolutionary Road
What does it mean to be a woman? -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
We all occasionally construct protective layers around our emotions, convinced that forgetting will negate the trouble of pain, the complications... -
The Exorcist
Friedkin’s film is trying to tell us this: decay, ugliness, suffering and evil exist. And they’re not just someone else’s... -
Quentin Tarantino: ‘Pulp Fiction’
Tarantino’s masterpiece ‘Pulp Fiction’ explores the space between natural phenomena and those inexplicable events that escape reasoned justification. -
Arranged
Stefan Schaefer’s Arranged (2007) is a beautiful presentation of the ordinary life of women in patriarchal religions, and gently portrays... -
Werner Herzog: ‘Grizzly Man’
Herzog’s journey into the 100 hours of film footage taken by the ‘Grizzly Man’ Timothy Treadwell offers us an expedition... -
Richard Linklater: ‘Waking Life’
Richard Linklater’s Waking Life (2001) is, even for such an unusual director, an unusual film. From the very beginning, the... -
Rogue Cinema
Fridays on ‘Doves and Serpents’ are film nights. That means you can get your popcorn, or equivalent snackfood, and follow...