Civic Mythology in Cinema: a sequence from Gallipoli (1981) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
An academic piece. Amidst the visual and narrative sprawl of Peter Weir’s 1981 film Gallipoli, the sequence in which the …
Essay
Cinema Oz Part Three: 1990-Present
…and, at last, faithful readers, the third and concluding part of my Australian cinema primer for GreenCine, looking at the …
Freedom and Fate in George Lucas’s THX 1138 and Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report
An edited version of an academic essay I wrote in 2009, looking at common generic concerns. George Lucas and Steven …
The Decline of the Western: Leone, Peckinpah, Penn, and Cimino
I wrote this essay about five years ago, having viewed several “revisionist” westerns in quick succession, including the much-lauded The …
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
.. You don’t need to know much about Fred C. Dobbs after taking a quick glance at him. He’s a …
