Author: Landon Palmer
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The 36 Dramatic Situations: ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ and Crimes of Love
How Dog Day Afternoon (1975) exemplifies Crimes of Love, one of the 36 Dramatic Situations.
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Criterion Files #478: ‘Last Year at Marienbad’
Alain Resnais is one my favorite filmmakers, and it’s largely because of his early work. Between Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima mon amour (1959), and…
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The 36 Dramatic Situations: The Seventh Continent (1989) and Sacrificing Loved Ones
This article is part of our 36 Dramatic Situations series. For 36 days straight, we’ll be exploring the famous 36 Dramatic Situations by examining a…
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Culture Warrior: Synesthesia at the Movies
Synesthesia (syn-es-the-sia, Brit. syn-aes-the-sia): “The production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or…
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The 36 Dramatic Situations: A Single Man (2009) and All Sacrificed for Passion
This article is part of our 36 Dramatic Situations series. For 36 days straight, we’ll be exploring the famous 36 Dramatic Situations by examining a…
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Culture Warrior: Outside the Box
I know no cinephile whose taste in movies survives completely the decades of aging and growing as a filmgoer. I have little doubt that others…
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The 36 Dramatic Situations: Harakiri (1962) and Self-Sacrifice for Kin
This article is part of our 36 Dramatic Situations series. For 36 days straight, we’ll be exploring the famous 36 Dramatic Situations by presenting a…
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The 36 Dramatic Situations: Hunger (2008) and Self-Sacrifice for an Ideal
This article is part of our 36 Dramatic Situations series. For 36 days straight, we’ll be exploring the famous 36 Dramatic Situations by examining a…
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Criterion Files #519: Close-Up
Anytime a face is shown on screen, and we see that face speak, a host of questions – implicit or explicit – are automatically present.…