The Eyeball #33: Why It’s Complicated Actually Is Complicated
You want to watch an on-demand movie with your wife, something funny, something in which you can become invested in the characters’ problems, something from the “New Arrivals” section, and you keep...
View ArticleThe Eyeball #34: The Thorn in My Heart
What’s going on with Michel Gondry’s career these days? Well, this, for starters…Whether this film will become a new Iron Man franchise I neither know nor care. The trailer makes it look like any other...
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The Eyeball #35: Un Chien Andalou
I’m teaching a class at Richard Hugo House in which we look at experimental films as writing prompts. I’ve always wanted to teach a film class, and marrying writing exercises to viewings of films...
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The Eyeball #36: BRAKHAGE!!!
I taught another session of my Experimental Films as Writing Prompts class at Hugo House last night. This one we looked at some films by Stan Brakhage. At the outset of the class I admitted that I had...
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The Eyeball #37: Kenneth Anger
Are there some films you have to take drugs to enjoy? I asked this question toward the end of this week’s session of the class on experimental films I’m teaching at Richard Hugo House, after spending...
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The Eyeball #38: HOUSE
Session four of my six-part class on using experimental films as writing prompts commenced last night at Richard Hugo House.In previous weeks we viewed films by Buñuel, Brakhage, and Anger, moving...
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The Eyeball #39: Bros. Quay, Svankmajer, and McLaren
Last week for my Hugo House class on using experimental films as writing prompts we spent 88 glorious minutes with House, the 1977 Japanese haunted pajama party freak-out directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi....
View ArticleThe Eyeball #40: Unreal Fiction and Film, Part 1
I’m midway through teaching a course at Antioch University Seattle called Unreal Fiction and Film. Every week we pair a film or selection of shorts with a short story. The class is scheduled from 7-10...
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The Eyeball #41: Talking with Aimee Bender About The 400 Blows
I’ve been writing this column off and on for a few years now and I thought I’d shake it up a bit by turning it into a dialogue. My first exposure to film criticism was watching At the Movies with...
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The Eyeball #42: Talking to Tom Nissley About The Most Dangerous Game
Last year my friend Tom Nissley appeared on Jeopardy!, winning eight straight games, which allowed him to quit his job as a Books editor at Amazon and earned him a spot in the Tournament of Champions,...
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