Screening Room
August 3, 2011
Ecstatic Truth: Werner Herzog’s The Cave of Forgotten Dreams 6
by Matt Hanson
You don’t have to question Herzog’s honesty in watching his films, though you might start to question his sanity.
July 26, 2011
Friday Night Fumble: When Mediocre TV Masquerades as High Art 41
by Alexander Nazaryan
Friday Night Lights is bad television. And if it is art, then it is art that is purposefully misleading, which is art of the worst kind. Something is truly rotten in the state of Texas.
July 8, 2011
Eye of the Beholder: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life 23
by Matt Hanson
Critical reaction to Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life has been decidedly garrulous. A vast majority of reviewers have invoked some kind of “higher” culture to signify the elusive mood or feeling it evokes.
June 29, 2011
Ayelet Waldman talks Hobgoblin and More 2
by Sonya Chung
“[T]he characters and story are very very far from my life. I think [Red Hook Road] is the best thing I’ve ever written, which, when you think about it, is pretty telling. Perhaps we should all be grateful that I’m now writing a TV pilot about magicians and con men who spy for the British in World War II.”
June 9, 2011
Family ‘Tree’ 4
by Jeff Martin
On attending a private, family screening of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
May 25, 2011
Oprahtherapy 5
by Sean Manning
Oprah was the perfect hospital show because it mirrored the hospital experience. Some days it was lighthearted and inspirational, others grave and despairing.
