Origin of the Pogo
The role of anthropologists is to interpret the guiding symbols of each culture.
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
The Asphalt Jungle
The least understood aspect of the human psyche is the ego.
Gone With the Wind
Bodies will be stacked together on battlefields like so much cordwood.
Beach Party
The moment at which the Anti-Anti-Utopian Generation grows up.
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.
Is This Heaven?
“I lend myself to the social game, I pose, I know I am posing, I want you to know that I am posing.”
The Thirty-Nine Steps
Sexy, thrilling, and — thanks to the sandwiches — very British indeed.
Creolised Fashion
Brands borrowing from jostled signs, creolised into incomprehension.
Blade Runner
Viewers never question Deckard’s humanity… except, perhaps, during this scene.
Skin Beyond the Sign
Skin becomes a clear and purified channel of free-flowing communication.
Apocalypse Now
In the existential jungle, empathy makes a man fitter for survival. But at what price?
Aging Disgracefully
While the physicality is exaggeratedly old the behavior is emphatically like that of a teenager.
The Fifth Element
Leeloo's strength is also her weakness.