film. art. perception.
Reinvent the Lens is an online journal dedicated to film theory, movie/television history, and the cinematic medium’s intersections with other artistic disciplines, ideas, and cultural constructs. For bite-sized portions of film, art, and perception follow Reinvent the Lens on Instagram. Long-form content is published here on the Writings page, and film bugs can find a wealth of RTL-recommended blogs, vlogs, and more on the Resources page.
Pre-review Rant: I hate Jane Austen novels. I have tried to like Jane Austen, truly, but to no avail. In the 1990s and aughts society very much tried to sell me on this author whose revival was celebrated in celluloid, video, and handsome boxed set
Continue readingAllison Calloway’s Persuasion Makes the Case for Bold Cinematic Experiments
This review is “One From The Vaults,” and it first appeared on my writer’s portfolio site in February 2016– I have long since ceased blogging on that platform so I decided it would be apropos to give it new life here. The screening of Youth
Continue readingPaolo Sorrentino’s Youth: Film, Fonda, Faux Fellinis
Clocking in just shy of 30 minutes, Søren Sørensen’s short documentary film With Dad is a spare, tightly-focused chronicle of photographer Stephen DiRado’s quest to capture his father Gene’s final years as the elder DiRado succumbs to Alzheimer’s disease. Based on DiRado’s book of the
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FILM NOMADLAND. For starters, a film is ALWAYS a metaphor for its mode of production. I firmly believe that the above (paraphrased) declaration by film theorist and historian David E. James applies to ALL of cinema, indeed all
Continue readingNomadland: Movies, Metaphors, and Modes of Production
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