The Queue

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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire Script Breakdown

Script to Screen: Visualizing the Turning Point of ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’

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Getting to know you/Getting to know all about you

Spirited Away

Growing Pains: Names, Autonomy, and the Changing Self in ‘Spirited Away’

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A liminal journey through the spirit realm by any other name would smell as sweet…

Terrence Malick A Hidden Life

Chasing Butterflies: Observations on the Visual Style of Terrence Malick

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Hope y’all brought your allergy medication because we’re going to be running through some fields.

The Evil Dead Shotgun

Fake Blood and True Grit: How Sam Raimi Made 1981’s ‘The Evil Dead’

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Turns out making a splatter film in the dead of winter is a horrorshow in its own right.

Shanghai Express Deitrich Lighting

Glamor From Above: The Simple Majesty of Dietrich Lighting

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Lights, camera, Marlene Dietrich.

Basket Case

Separation Anxiety: The Anatomy of the ‘Basket Case’ Trilogy

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“What’s in the basket? Easter eggs?”

Tenet Resonances

Visual Rhymes: The Cinematic Resonances of ‘Tenet’

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Because no one is a bigger film dork than filmmakers.

Samuel L Jackson Gator Jungle Fever

The Ballad of Gator Purify: Samuel L. Jackson’s Career-Making Performance

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Before Jules Winnfield…there was Gator Purify.

Casino Royale Poker Scene

Bluffs, Tells, and Martinis: An Analysis of the ‘Casino Royale’ Poker Scene

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Knowledge of how poker works not required.