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Critical Essays

Not So Long Ago, But Very Far Away (Criterion)

Dazed and Confused Movie Review (1993) (Roger Ebert)

Dazed and Confused is Perfectly Sincere (Pop Matters)

How Richard Linklater Created a Classic with Dazed and Confused (Rolling Stone)

Keynote: The teenage utopia of Dazed and Confused, in 10 screenshots (The Dissolve)

Six Scenes We Love from Dazed and Confused (Film School Rejects)

Contextual Reading

Realism on the Reel: The Cinematic Vision of Richard Linklater

“Dazed By Days” By Richard Linklater • Cinephilia & Beyond

Richard Linklater got “screwed,” alleges he was never paid for Dazed and Confused

How Did Indie Films Rule the 90s?

From ‘The 400 Blows’ to ‘Lady Bird’: 9 Essential Coming-of-Age Films

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Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness: Keats and Fanny Brawne (Roger Ebert)

Jane Campion’s subtle and measured film about Keats (Guardian)

Her Own Verse Enemy (Reverse Shot)

Underming Keats (New York Review of Books)

Bright Star (Jane Campion, 2009) (Senses of Cinema)

Six Sonnets for Bright Star (Bright Wall/Dark Room)

Contextual Reading

Keats, Fanny Brawne, and his poem “Bright Star”

Jane Campion’s Bright Star (interview)

John Keats 1795-1821

The Romantics – The British Library

All 8 Jane Campion Films Ranked

Videos

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Wagon trains to the west were not jolly (Roger Ebert)

Meek’s Cutoff (AV Club)

‘Meek’s Cutoff’: An Old West, Captured For A New Era (NPR)

Sewing Spaces / Needlework in Meek’s Cutoff (Brooklyn Rail)

Countering Dominant Cinema: Temporality in Meek’s Cutoff (Senses of Cinema)

A stripped-down feminist Western (Slate)

Contextual Reading

The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns

Neo Frontier Cinema: Rewriting the Frontier Narrative from the Margins

Vernacular Landscapes: Reading the Anthropocene in the Films of Kelly Reichardt

What is a Western Anyway? – Film School Rejects

Basic Facts About the Oregon Trail

Numbers of Female Directors and Writers Grow in Indie Films, Study Shows

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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: Review (Roger Ebert)

Doubletake: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Pop Matters)

Тіні забутих предків (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) (Forgotten Classics)

Cinema and Painting in Parajanov’s Aesthetic Metamorphosis (Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Film Freedonia)

Sergei Parajanov: Filmmaker of Outrageous Imagination (Guardian)

Contextual Reading

The Lady Vanishes: Soviet Censorship, Socialist Realism, and the Disappearance of Larisa Shepitko

The Art of Escaping Censorship

Russian cinema: a century of state-approved propaganda

Parajanov and Tarkovsky in London – Criterion Retrospective

Sergei Parajanov: Where to Start with His Films

Notes on Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors – Parajanov in his own words

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Epic Drama on Poverty, Race and Family Is ‘Stunning Achievement’ (Rolling Stone)

Mudbound: Movie Review (rogerebert.com)

Mudbound Review: A Moving Tale of Two Families (Screen Rant)

The ambitious Mudbound gives a prestige literary epic the soul of a character study (AV Club)

Mudbound: The Bonds That Bind & Break (Film Inquiry)

Winner of the Gotham Jury Award for Ensemble Performance, ‘Mudbound’ Has the Best Ensemble of the Year (Indie Wire)

Contextual Reading

Can Netflix crash the Oscars with Dee Rees’ ‘Mudbound’?

Mudbound Cinematographer is First Female DP To Earn Oscar Nomination

A Brief History of Jim Crow – Constitutional Rights Foundation

Movies That Did Black History Justice

Black Film as Genre

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(500) Days Of Summer: 14 Important Lessons About Love (Screen Rant)

A Perfect Love Not Meant to Last (Roger Ebert)

(500) Days Of Summer is basically the Fight Club of rom-coms (AV Club)

Just Another Tired Revenge Movie? (Refinery29)

500 Days of Summer and 10 Years of Reflection (Film School Rejects)

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Co-Signs A Hot Take About His 500 Days of Summer Character (Cinema Blend)

Contextual Reading

The Cinematic Architecture of Rejection: Split-Screen Montage

Hierarchy of Needs Portrayed by The Main Character

LA Locations Featured in “500 Days of Summer”

10 Most-Used Romantic Comedy Tropes

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Die Hard: 5 Reasons It’s The Greatest Action Movie Ever Made (Screen Rant)

Story Structure Analysis: Die Hard (6 Act Structure)

Die Hard movie review & film summary (Roger Ebert)

Die Hard humanized (and perfected) the action movie (AV Club)

Die Hard: Deconstructing 1980s Onscreen Masculinity (Film Archive)

Why Hans Gruber Remains the Greatest Action Movie Villain of All Time (Den of Geek)

7 Things That Don’t Make Sense About Die Hard (Cinema Blend)

Contextual Reading

Action Movies | The SilverScreen Analysis

Hollywood Action Hero – TV Tropes

Fox Plaza – The Architectural Star of ‘Die Hard’

Keane, Stephen. Disaster Movies: The Cinema of Catastrophe

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Out of the Past (RogerEbert.com)

‘Out of the Past’: The Quintessential Film Noir (Cinephilia & Beyond)

Out of the Past: Film Notes (NYS Writers Institute)

Film Noir and The American Tradition (Tufts)

Home of the weak: Out of the Past and four ways of framing film noir (BFI)

Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past (BAMF Style)

Contextual Reading

What Is Film Noir? Genre & Best Movies Explained

The Dark Beauty of Film Noir in 50 Perfect Shots

Notebook Primer: Film Noir

What is the Hays Code — Hollywood Production Code Explained

Jacques Tourneur on Val Lewton and Cinematic Escapism

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Attack of the Giant Amphibian! (RogerEbert.com)

Bong Joon-ho’s ‘The Host’ Is The Defining Monster Movie Of The 21st Century (Indie Wire)

Long before Parasite, Bong Joon-ho was skewering bloodsucking social systems (Vox)

34 Things We Learned From ‘The Host’ Commentary (Film School Rejects)

Monstrosity as Metaphor: Boon Joon-ho’s The Host (Moveable Type)

The Host: The Monster Emerging From the han (Senses of Cinema)

Contextual Reading

The dangers of biosecurity: The Host and the geopolitics of outbreak

Why Anyone Who Cares About Korea Should Watch ‘The Host’

Monster Movies – Environment and Society

Film as cultural diplomacy: South Korea’s nation branding through Parasite

Bong Joon Ho and Song Kang-ho’s Film Collaborations, Ranked

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Isolated Madness (Roger Ebert)

‘The Shining’ Will Turn Us Around and Around, Forever and Ever (The Ringer)

The Shining: Every Theory On What Kubrick’s Movie Is Really About (Screen Rant)

The Autonomous Camera in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (Sydney Studies)

A Dramaturgical Analysis of The Shining (Senses of Cinema)

The Shining: All work and no play… (Int’l Journal of Psychology)

The lasting impact of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (Den of Geek)

Contextual Reading

The Shining producer explains ending changes

The Shining’s Overlook Hotel: REAL Location & Design Inspiration Explained

The Shining’s Odd Connection to David Lynch’s Eraserhead

Work and Life of Stanley Kubrick

Videos