This is an inventory all of all my film articles, updated whenever I write something new. I put the general / theoretical articles first, followed by more specific reviews and analyses. Christopher Nolan of course gets his own section, as does Drive. Enjoy!
Arguments for an expanded notion of cinema:
- How Many Cinemas Are There?
- Why Do You Need So Many Cinemas?
- DIY Geek Cinema
- Are Animated Gifs a Type of Cinema?
Other overviews:
- How Many Movies Are There?
- How Many Movies Have You Seen?
- The Lowest-Grossing Movies of 2011
- The 248 Best Movies of 2011
- The 240 Best Movies of 2012
- The 474 Best Movies of 2011 & 2012
- The Longest Average Shot Lengths in Modern Hollywood
- The 1970s vs. the 2000s (in Hollywood film, at least)
- What Mise-en-scène Is and Why It Matters
- What’s So New about New Wave?
Christopher Nolan:
Inception:
- Seventeen Ways of Criticizing Inception
- Art as Device, and Device (When It Works) as Miracle (or, The Princess Bride vs. Inception)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. Inception for the Future of the Cinematic Imagination
- More on Inception: Shot Economy and 1 + 1 = 1
- A D Jameson Talks about Movies #1 — The opening scenes of Inception (YouTube video)
The Dark Knight Rises:
- The Ever Risable Dark Knight
- We Need to Talk About Batman
- Reading Frank Miller’s influences on Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy
Drive:
- my initial review
- Let’s watch a scene from Drive and analyze it
- Cliché as Necessity (Birthing Innovation)
- Something Film Understands but that Literature Doesn’t
- A Little Bit More on Cliché
- my commentary track for Drive (yes, an actual full-length commentary track, in mp3 form)
The Hobbit:
- The Hobbit Part 1: An Unexpected Journey (+ a Ryan Gosling-meme bonus)
- The Hobbit Part 2: The Desolation of Smaug
Other movie reviews & analyses:
- Blue Jasmine
- Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
- Breakfast with Curtis
- Cloud Atlas
- Dogtooth (Kynodontas)
- Doom House & Mood House
- Fellini’s television commercials
- Hail the New Puritan (+ an earlier review)
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Jurassic World: here and here
- Laura
- Lifeforce
- Night Moves
- Only God Forgives
- Prometheus
- Raiders of the Lost Ark
- Ringing Bell
- Roundhay Garden Scene
- Shoplifting from American Apparel
- Somebody That I Used To Know (yes, the Gotye music video)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens + my response to the initial casting announcement
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
- The Ladies Man
- The Neon Demon
- There Will Be Blood
- The World’s End: 1st take | 2nd (better) take
- Tom Carvel’s experimental ice cream commercials
- Total Eclipse of the Heart (the Bonnie Tyler music video)
- Total Recall + Showgirls
- Transformers: Age of Extinction
- Two-Lane Blacktop
- Vagabond (Sans toit ni loi)
My Favorite New Movies (my yearly round-ups):
A D & Jeremy Talk about Movies:
- #0: announcing the series
- #1: Source Code, Friends, Woody Allen, The Man from London, Sucker Punch, Zardoz, Tron, Willow, and Shoot ‘Em Up
- #2: Source Code, Moon, and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
- #3: Mel Gibson’s Hamlet, all films Kenneth Branagh, Sleuth, Joseph Mankiewicz, Thor, superhero movies in general
- #4: Midnight in Paris (and other recent Woody Allens)
- #5: Extra: Ranking Woody Allen
- #6: The Tree of Life
- #7: Extra: Linda’s Voice-Over Narration in Days of Heaven
- #8: X-Men: First Class
Memorials:
A. D. Jameson's Blog 