Beach Party
The moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up.
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Mommy Man
Just how nurturing can a father be… before he is emasculated?
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Pure Hitchcock: tragic and comic at precisely the same instant.
Les Valseuses
Half-wild denizens of “la zone” on the outskirts of a large town.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Sexy, thrilling, and — thanks to the sandwiches — very British indeed.
Blade Runner
Viewers never question Deckard’s humanity… except, perhaps, during this scene.
Apocalypse Now
In the existential jungle, empathy makes a man fitter for survival. But at what price?
The Fifth Element
Leeloo's strength is also her weakness.
The Bad News Bears
In life, as in baseball, things can always get better. Or worse.
Taking the Mickey
A marvelous proliferation of Mickey’s meaning.
Raising Arizona
A blank affect can be a canny psychic-survival stratagem.
Nobrow Mickey
“It’s on America’s tortured brow / that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow.”
Young and Innocent
It’s not about right vs. wrong, it’s about wit vs. shit.
“I’m the Mouse”
The origins of today's rich, imaginative Mickey-scape.