My paper for this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, coming up next month in Boston, will focus on the two films that got a lot of side-by-side attention at last year’s Cannes festival, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Since a few of my favorite bloggers have […]
Posts Tagged ‘von Trier’
Toward an ecophilosophical cinema
Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged film, Malick, Peirce, von Trier on February 17, 2012 | 13 Comments »
Malick vs. von Trier @ Cannes
Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged film, Malick, von Trier on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »
The artist of sublime faith (of the pantheistic, immanent kind) versus the artist of sublime cynicism. “Earth is heaven (and purgatory)” versus “Earth is evil.” With catastrophe and Kubrick’s 2001 lurking in the background of both… http://youtu.be/fLPe0fHuZsc