From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com
— David Hudson, IFC.com
Jon Lanthier
Berkeley, CA, USA
effective.glissando@gmail.com
effective.glissando@gmail.com
Jon Lanthier is a writer, multimedia artist, coffee drinker, and cultural autodidact from Berkeley, CA. Cinematic obsessions include Powell and Pressburger, New York filmmakers, the post-digital era, surrealism/absurdism, and international animation. He is convinced that the best film criticism is one-third academic analysis, one-third personal essay, and one-third conspiracy theory. He welcomes ad hominem attacks on the gaping holes in his rhetoric.
» Outstanding Defense Mechanisms: The Phrenology of Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (BLFJ 68
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May 2010)
Shutter Island might be the only psychological thriller abetted by a lack of interest in the psyche.
» Film and Film and Film: An Interview with Jonas Mekas (BLFJ 66
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November 2009)
"One who knows how to, as they say, 'read' the images, can tell everything about me."
» Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber, (BLFJ 66
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November 2009)
edited by Robert Politot
» An Atheist's Guide to Wise Blood: The Doctrine of the Auto-Redemptionist (BLFJ 65
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August 2009)
"It's almost as if The Misfit himself were behind the camera."
» Books: "Have You Seen . . . ?": A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films, (BLFJ 63
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February 2009)
by David Thomson
» Linda, Harry, and the Pseudo-Screw: Burn After Reading: The Coen Brothers' DC Story (BLFJ 62
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November 2008)
Burn After Reading holds the notable distinction of being the only screwball comedy to leave all of its characters either moderately satisfied or dead."
» Film Criticism as a Man's Job: A Belated Look at the Legacy of Manny Farber (BLFJ 62
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November 2008)
"Farber's writing is the pure antithesis of academic — ornately sophisticated with a vernacular punch, stuffed with contradictory statements and astounding paradoxes."
» To Slap a Dame: Sexual Violence in the Age of Reason (BLFJ 61
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August 2008)
"Skip is the only one that enacts incest with one hand and bats away communists like flies from a dung pile with the other."
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