ISSN 1712-9559
Browse by author: Daniel Garrett
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A review essay of two books celebrating the varied contributions of African-American 'imagemakers' in its broadest sense (filmmakers, actors, writers, artists).
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A review essay on three recent books, two focusing on Charlie Chaplin and one on the American critic/playright James Agee.
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A book review of Richard A. Gilmore’s Doing Philosophy at the Movies, which looks at, The Searchers, The Usual Suspects, Vertigo, Fargo, Crimes and Misdemeanors, The Terminator, 12 Monkeys, Trainspotting, Night of the Living Dead, and The Matrix.
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A panoply of in-depth reviews focusing on the importance of character as a way of reading film texts for social and philosophical meaning.
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An idiosyncratic look at contemporary thought filtered through popular art, literature, film, and philosophy.
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An idiosyncratic look at contemporary thought filtered through popular art, literature, film, and philosophy.
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An 'ensemble' piece of film criticism using the unique culture of Louisiana and the Katrina hurricane that shattered Louisiana as a starting point. Films analyzed include: Be Cool, Guess Who, Elizabethtown, Loggerheads, 9 Songs, Cote D’Azur, 2046, Red Eye, Thumbsucker, and Proof.
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Writer Garrett looks at the human quotient across a series of recent films (including Yes, and In My Country, The Interpreter, Off the Map, The Upside of Anger, and Saraband).
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An appreciation of Pauline Kael through Ingmar Bergman.
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Woody Allen, Melinda and Melinda, Eros, Wong Kar-wai, Michelangelo Antonioni, Crash
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Geopolitics meet sexual politics in Walk on Water
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Each of us is human and has value, but we are not equally valuable—our resources (knowledge, skills, talents, and monies), and relationships to others, determine the extent of our value. Sometimes we feel inferior because we are. The work of people such as Plato and Shakespeare is not important because they are Greek or English but because of how they illuminate the human condition, an illumination not limited by language, national borders, or time.
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An analysis of the film's engagement with philosophical discourse in a comedic mode.
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There are works that are less important for what they are than for what they inspire us to think about, and one such work is Rodney Evans’s “Brother to Brother”
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Films come and come; and do so quickly enough that it’s hard to know if any of them are of much importance—before a decent, public conversation can occur, they’re gone. Films reviewed include: Hero, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, Vanity Fair, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Motorcycle Diaries, Kilometer Zero, Stage Beauty, Kinsey, Alexander.
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