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Laurel Creighton
Dec 30, 20213 min read
My Italian Neo-Realism Picks - No. 2 (La Terra Trema)
La Terra Trema (The Earth Trembles) was released in 1948 and directed and narrated by Luchino Visconti. The story follows a family in...
Laurel Creighton
Dec 24, 20211 min read
What to watch now that you've seen The Matrix Resurrections
Did you love Matrix Resurrections? Watch these next: 1.) Brazil - Terry Gilliam (1985) 2.) City of Lost Children - Marc Caro and...
Laurel Creighton
Dec 15, 20213 min read
My Italian Neo-Realism Picks - No. 3 (Rome, Open City)
Rome, Open City Rome, Open City, released in 1945 and directed by Roberto Rossellini, follows Giorgio Manfredi, a resistance leader...
Laurel Creighton
Dec 1, 20214 min read
The Mephistophelian Argument Versus Kant's Theory of Enlightenment
According to the Kantian theory of Enlightenment, the essay "What is Enlightenment" defines it as "man's release from his self-incurred...
Laurel Creighton
Nov 20, 20218 min read
The Importance of Dorothy in Cassavetes' "Opening Night"
Dorothy and Manny’s scene starting at 14:28 and running until 20:02 minutes into the film showcases the importance of this seminal...
Laurel Creighton
Nov 11, 20216 min read
The Use of Children as Thematic Element in Post War Neo-Realism
Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica and Germany, Year Zero by Roberto Rossellini present themselves similarly. These films are...
Laurel Creighton
Nov 5, 20214 min read
Kafka: Alienation and Marxism
Kafka stands apart from most writers. His style is haunting and, to some, obtuse. Kafka was not a political writer, but he sympathized...
Laurel Creighton
Oct 31, 20213 min read
Acousmatics Behind the Veil
The past month I must have listened more actively and concretely than I have before, hoping to find the ideal forms of sound to speak of...
Laurel Creighton
Oct 22, 20217 min read
Feminism and Doris Wishman
Doris Wishman was the infamous prolific sexploitation filmmaker from 1960s through the early 2000s completing thirty independent films...
Laurel Creighton
Oct 22, 202113 min read
The Automata of Jeanne Dielman
Ackerman asserts that Jeanne Dielman is a feminist film for two important reasons. The first being that It is a woman’s viewpoint on the...
Laurel Creighton
Oct 15, 20216 min read
Barbara Loden's "Wanda"
Gorfinkel's essay, "On Wanda's Slowness," looks to "reframe and reposition the film concerning a genealogy of women's filmmaking,...
Laurel Creighton
Aug 18, 20214 min read
The Doppelgänger and Women's Image in Cinema
The theme of doubling is ancient and can be found in primitive rituals and superstition’s such as twins being killed out of fear of...
Laurel Creighton
Aug 13, 20211 min read
The Dizziness of Self Part Two
It's been two years and a half since I written anything interesting and personal on my site. Since then a pandemic has ravaged the...
Laurel Creighton
Aug 11, 20217 min read
Undine: Thoughts of Architecture and Historical Pastiche
On June 29th, 2021, I headed to Lincoln Center on my way to watch Christian Petzold’s new film Undine. I chose this as my cultural...
Laurel Creighton
Sep 27, 20204 min read
Hateship Loveship (2014)
Dir. Liza Johnson (USA) It's hard to hate when a comedic actor takes to serious dramatic roles and does it well. Kristen Wigg portrays...
Laurel Creighton
Jun 27, 20201 min read
The Danish Girl (2015)
There is so much to love about this film. The main character's independent but fierce camaraderie for each other, the expression of what...
Laurel Creighton
Jun 13, 20202 min read
Shirley (2020)
Whose Afraid of Virgina Woolfe meets the Virgin Suicides meets A Doll's House. Decker, Josephine. "Shirley." Hulu, LAMF, 2020, USA. This...
Laurel Creighton
Sep 22, 20192 min read
BARDO MOVIE NO. 2 - Beetlejuice
(1988) Tim Burton USA So as part of our Two Dead Girls initiative, each week we are watching a "bardo" movie. Last week was Enter the...
Laurel Creighton
Sep 16, 201910 min read
TWO DEAD GIRLS - Between Heaven & Hell: An Adventure
Episodes 1 & 2 are available and online HERE! My experience with the American Book of the Dead is something I'm not sure I am able to...
Laurel Creighton
Sep 13, 20192 min read
Full Moon in Pisces - Tantra Yoga Ritual
Things to Do on a Pisces Full Moon We got Mantra, Yantra, Tantra gone amok - Margaret McDonnell Alright so, Tantra has a bad name. Maybe...
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