Category Archives: Film

Dirty Dancing

Posted on December 6, 2009 by dhadbawnik

What if Jim Stark, James Dean‘s character from Rebel Without a Cause, left home after the end of the movie, learned some sick dance moves, and became an instructor in a string of cheesy resorts in the Catskills? That’s essentially … Continue reading →

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Bright Star

Posted on October 25, 2009 by dhadbawnik

I felt ambivalent about the new, Jane Campion-directed film about John Keats and Fanny Brawne. Why? Biopics are always hit or miss, and I’m not a fan of Campion. When the film played for a week at a nearby theater … Continue reading →

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Grizzly Man

Posted on August 4, 2008 by dhadbawnik

That Tim Treadwell, the subject of Werner Herzog‘s documentary Grizzly Man, was a bit unstable is beyond question. But was he mad? I think of this as I’m still reading Foucault’s History of Madness and sifting through recent posts on … Continue reading →

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The Dark Knight

Posted on July 26, 2008 by dhadbawnik

Films often capture the zeitgeist of a given moment, whether intentionally or not. For some reason, while watching The Dark Knight last night at our local theater, I kept thinking of one my late-80s favorites, Die Hard. Like the latest … Continue reading →

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