Movies

Building off of my essay on eros, centering on the philosophy of Byung-Chul Han, I came across this quote from him today: Depression can be understood as a pathogenic development of this modern ontology of the self. It is, as Alain Ehrenberg puts it, fatigue d’être soi tiredness of

Movie star, Oscar winning director and godfather of American independent cinema Robert Redford died today. As a bit of coincidence/synchronicity, I finally got around to seeing Redford’s 1972 romantic comedy “The Way We Were,” co-starring Barbara Streisand, this weekend. It was a very strange film — basically a leftist

I just finished watching the 2000 Wong Kar-Wai masterpiece “In the Mood for Love” this evening. And while I don’t see the need to write a full review of the film — I’ve seen it several times and have written about it before — I may want to revisit the

I just finished rewatching the 1972 Eric Rohmer movie “Love In the Afternoon,” a movie that I don’t think left too strong an impression on me the first time through, not at least in comparison to Rohmer’s best work like “My Night at Maud’s” or “The Green