8 years ago
All posts by Greg Cwik
Two Writers Get Into A Car. Ouch.
David Foster Wallace is the epitome of the Writer's Writer. His labyrinthine prose and slang-laced erudition appeal to the myriad would-be scribes struggling to find meaning in their debt-inducing liberal arts educations that never really pay off—the "obscenel...
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Blu-ray Review: “The Killers”
With his "Iceberg Theory" laying the foundation for every college writing workshop, and his terse, conjunction-laden prose presenting a stark contrast to the verbosity favored by William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway remains ...
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“The Connection”
The French Connection remains the most visceral and least urbane encapsulation of urban crime of the New Hollywood movement. William Friedkin's squalid depiction of cops and crooks revels in ambiguity, both moral and narrative. It's a work of technical virtuos...
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“3 Hearts”
If you had to assign a figurative shape to the trio-based love affair that is at the, ahem, heart of Benoit Jacquot's 3 Hearts, you might say it resembles something of a triangle. Why has no one else ever conceived of a love triangle before? It's so obvious. A...
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Sunset and Stars: On Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars”
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg’s first film shot in the U.S., is an unapologetic slap in the face of Hollywood. Replete with star-fucking, stalking, suicide, murder, and incest, it's essentially the smarter, meaner twin that ate The Canyons in utero. Star...
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Once More, With Feeling: The Best Film Restorations of 2014
It's time to kiss 2014 goodbye (or kick its ass out the door, depending on how well your year went) and furiously compile our Best-Of lists, as film people are wont to do. Obviously most people focus on ranking the best new releases of the year ("release" bein...
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The Curious Case of Anthology Horror
Anthology horror is having a moment right now. This happens every other decade or so; like the numbnut denizens of The Purge expunging the violence from their systems by perennially slaughtering unlucky bystanders (usually of the lower-class variety), filmmake...
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