Rock’n’Roll High School
Losers don’t know how to behave triumphantly when they win.
Shocking Blocking
Field notes on the movement and positioning of actors in movies.
Madigan
The cops are society’s super-ego, the girl is its id.
The Mack
Dandyism and flâneurie as radical/misguided street theater.
It Happened One Night
“Awww, I like mushy stuff!”
Eraserhead
Replete with images of loneliness, tedium, and paranoia.
Breaking Away
They have no repertoire of bromantic chest-bumps.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Conveying emotional idealism via cluttered, awkward blocking.
Harold and Maude
She is wisdom, love, joy.
Repo Man
Otto will transcend the far too limiting punk-hippie dichotomy.
The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.
Goodfellas
They refuse to live like “schnooks.”
The Little Princess
“One soldier more or less doesn’t make any difference, you know.”
The Lady Vanishes
“Bless me, what an unpleasant journey!”