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Religious Music and Entertainment

2023-07-11T16:41:54-04:00

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Clown Car Gladio

Last updated on: July 11, 2023 at 4:41 pm By Chase Padusniak

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A recent book review asks: “There are Herzog memes, but no Fassbinder memes. Why is that?” The answer, I think, lies in the scowling, gleeful sardonicism of his movies. His work is always prophetic, topical, and utterly alien. Form and content coil around each other, comingling even as they snap at each other’s underbellies. Inevitably, they turn on themselves too. All is soon strangled. Even more-straightforward works like Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) and Eight Hours Don’t Make a... Read more

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2023-07-05T16:26:59-04:00

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Foolish Brutes and Brutish Fools

Last updated on: July 5, 2023 at 4:26 pm By Chase Padusniak

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After absorbing Federico Fellini’s La Strada (1954) I didn’t say much for a few hours. I was tired and sweaty and had to run to catch a train; my wife was also tired, sweaty, and had to catch a train. But the exhausting rush home provided a fitting backdrop for the dark-matter pit brewing in my gut. Fellini’s film left me with what might otherwise seem opposite feelings: sympathy for the world and everyone in it and a sense of... Read more

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2023-06-23T17:16:27-04:00

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The Conman and the Preacher

Last updated on: June 23, 2023 at 5:16 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Elmer Gantry (1960) is an easy movie to reduce to one of its elements. You could fairly easily see it as a straightforward critique of organized religion, some avant-garde assault not just on today’s blatant televangelists and cult leaders but on the whole of faith as such. You could just as simply call it a saccharine bit of old-fashioned wisdom literature, a film only a step or two removed from shlock like Reefer Madness (1936). It is indeed moralistic and... Read more

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2023-06-21T17:52:01-04:00

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Teach It Phenomenology!

Last updated on: June 21, 2023 at 5:52 pm By Chase Padusniak

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It may come as a surprise to some Halloween (1978) fans that John Carpenter’s debut feature is a sci-fi farce co-written by and co-starring Dan O’Bannon of Alien (1979) fame. It surprised me, anyway. Not that Carpenter hasn’t made forays into comedy (e.g., 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China), but I wouldn’t have bet on “goofy existential comedy” as his student film-turned-first-shot-at-the-silver-screen. Dark Star (1974) follows a crew of four extremely bored astronauts as they fulfill their noble mission of... Read more

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2023-06-16T16:05:38-04:00

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The Found Footage Curse

Last updated on: June 16, 2023 at 4:05 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Found footage movies face a fundamental problem: editing. For a film to be “found” its makers must have disappeared. Their vanishing is the movie’s raison d’être. Why else would the actors from The Blair Witch Project (1999) sit out Cannes and watch their parents receive condolence letters? A steward might step in and contextualize the movie, but the footage itself belongs to the bygone. Any number of cinematic problems arise. You need to find a reason why the camera cuts... Read more

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2023-06-16T08:37:28-04:00

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Confessional Everything

Last updated on: June 16, 2023 at 8:37 am By Chase Padusniak

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With the Confessional Poets, there’s candor, yes. But more than that there’s shame. There may indeed be pleasure in that shame, the smile that comes with admitting one is broken. That pleasure, however, is by necessity ambiguous. You can see it, for example, in the title of Anne Sexton’s “The Ballad of the Lonely Masturbator.” It’s even more apparent in the poetry itself: The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes.... Read more

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University of Alabama

2023-06-09T16:50:51-04:00

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Not Another Social Media Movie!

Last updated on: June 9, 2023 at 4:50 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Influencer (2022) is the sort of movie in which a ruddy, sopping-wet Englishman sidles up to a young woman at a bar and offers to show her around because he’s “just being friendly.” It is the type of film in which another young Western woman mockingly laughs and tells him to get lost, intimating that “such men are dangerous.” It is the kind of cinematic experience in which Western Girl #2 lures Western Girl #1 to a remote island off... Read more

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Reviews

Artificial Intelligence

2023-05-24T17:02:38-04:00

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Plot/Reverse Plot

Last updated on: May 24, 2023 at 5:02 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Low-hanging fruit but fruit nonetheless—I stand by (or slink past) my title. I’ve been down on story/plot lately. My reviews have highlighted style and bemoaned our dot-connecting obsession. Fair enough, but narrative has its uses, chief among them parody. The adage is that you have to know the rules to break them—Picasso and all that. Just so, subversion of expectation only works if you have expectations. If McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) is your first Western, John Wayne’ll be quite... Read more

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2023-05-19T17:41:51-04:00

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Mankind and the American Dream

Last updated on: May 19, 2023 at 5:41 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Someone remarked to me recently that Mick Foley, the ex-professional wrestler, may be among the greatest two or three living Americans. The question came up because I mentioned his debut novel, Tietam Brown (2003), which I began reading not long after finishing the first volume of his memoirs, Have a Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (1999). The autobiography alone gives you the sense that he belongs in our annals (slim as contemporary pickings may be). The large... Read more

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Professional Wrestling

Tietam Brown

2023-05-15T19:27:04-04:00

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What’s Plot Go to Do with It?

Last updated on: May 15, 2023 at 7:27 pm By Chase Padusniak

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Help me find the golden mean. One end, draped in the ole stars and stripes and buttressed by the Hollywood money machine, resounds with a chittering, echoing ad infinitum: “superhero movies are our modern-day myths!” On the other side, a portly gourmand and his rail-thin, mustachioed compatriot, clap their hands together gently but with feeling: “an exercise in style!” I’m with Scorsese more than not on this one, I think. But it’s worth investigating that commonplace, the idea that we... Read more

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