My Perspective (ahem) on Rashomon
“It’s all a lie. Tajomaru’s story and the woman’s. […] [The samurai’s] story was also lies.” These words are spoken by a liar. So it goes in Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa’s postwar […]
Monthly Archives: July 2017
Double Feature: Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Seven Year Itch
The career-defining image of Marilyn Monroe standing on the subway grate, her dress billowing upward from the rush of a passing train, is the rare kind of iconic moment that […]
Two Poems
Sonnet No. 1 Only Love Can Save the Suicides
Both Versions: Blade Runner
As is the case with many movies that have been passed down to us in multiple versions, the gestation of Blade Runner was a contentious affair. The archetypes familiar from the […]
Geppetto's Clocks 