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film. art. perception.

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  • Film Reviews Allison Calloway, Film Criticism, Film Reviews, Indie Films, Jane Austen, Persuasion

    Allison Calloway’s Persuasion Makes the Case for Bold Cinematic Experiments 

    Mary Bowen December 11, 2023
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    Film Reviews One From The Vaults Federico Fellini, Film Criticism, Film Reviews, Jane Fonda, Paolo Sorrentino

    Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth: Film, Fonda, Faux Fellinis

    Mary Bowen August 4, 2021
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    Reinvention Pending

    Mary Bowen December 29, 2020
  • Film Reviews 2020 Films, Chloé Zhao, Film Criticism, Film Reviews, Nomadland

    Nomadland: Movies, Metaphors, and Modes of Production

    Mary Bowen March 3, 2021
December 11, 2023
Film Reviews

Allison Calloway’s Persuasion Makes the Case for Bold Cinematic Experiments 

Pre-review Rant: I hate Jane Austen novels. I have tried to like Jane Austen, truly,…

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August 4, 2021
Film Reviews One From The Vaults

Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth: Film, Fonda, Faux Fellinis

This review is "One From The Vaults," and it first appeared on my writer's portfolio…

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June 5, 2021
Documentary Film Reviews Short Film

Søren Sørensen’s Documentary WITH DAD is a Moving Exercise in Less-is-More Filmmaking

Clocking in just shy of 30 minutes, Søren Sørensen's short documentary film With Dad is…

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March 3, 2021
Film Reviews

Nomadland: Movies, Metaphors, and Modes of Production

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE FILM NOMADLAND. For starters, a film is ALWAYS…

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Mary Bowen
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December 29, 2020
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Reinvention Pending

As of this posting, Reinvent the Lens is still under construction. Much like Virginia Woolf's…

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Mary Bowen, Editor-in-Chief

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. There are spoilers, and occasionally pretensions. Both scholarly criticism and personal reflections have a home here. High art and so-called low art are intimately acquainted.

The first filmmakers sought to understand the human brain and cinematic language was born. Brains evolve and devolve and so does film –we are constantly reinventing the lens.

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"A film’s images and sounds never fail to tell the story of how and why they were produced– the story of the mode of their production."

~David E. James, Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties
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