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The Yet Unclaimed Baggage of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight
In a mock recreation of the conditions in the air that pilot William “Whip” Whitaker, played by Denzel Washington in the film Flight (2012), faced,
The Artist: Mystification Beyond Artistry
Joseph Natoli discusses the incongruous presence of a black and white, silent film evoking Hollywood’s “golden age” in an era of hi-tech culture that has
Cowboys & Aliens: The Exhaustion of History & the Re-Genesis of Illusions
Joseph Natoli digs into this genre-blending hybrid of a film, which inadvertently has much to say about America’s fading sense of history.
True Grit: Digerati Go Western? Millennials Go “Back in the Day”?
Joseph Natoli ponders what history and the past mean in the age of social networking.
The America Endangered in The American: A Dark Allegory
On the surface, Anton Corbijn’s film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith-for-hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli’s allegorical reading the
The Perils of Being Up in the Air
Joseph Natoli dissects Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air as an allegory of the post-9/11 world. An allegory fraught with all manner of contradictions and
The Deep Morals of Inglourious Basterds
Is Tarantino’s latest just another pastiche of postmodern cinéphilic references? Perhaps not. Joseph Natoli looks for the moral compass in the director’s blood soaked war