Reverses #2: Love Folds Space and Time
Daniel KasmanOur continuing series on the power of the reverse shot. Tony Scott’s Déjà Vu riffs off of Hitchcock’s Vertigo with the latest tech.
Tony Scott
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Triangulating the Rust Belt: Notes on Tony Scott's "Unstoppable"
Daniel KasmanFound on my cine-hard drive, notes for an review of Tony Scott’s great 2010 thriller, Unstoppable.
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The Baroque, Spiraling: Michael Bay and the Dromospheric Cinema
Uncas BlytheF.T. Marinetti and Paul Virilio walk into a bar, which turns out to be the set of a Michael Bay movie and it explodes. No one is hurt. PG-13
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: Tony Scott's "Unstoppable"
The Ferroni Brigade"Oh yeah, Tony Scott—he's good," says even Lav Diaz, currently residing in Vienna's Ferronian headquarters, and further proof rushes into cinemas with Unstoppable (and to home systems with the highly
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"Unstoppable," "Tiny Furniture," More
David HudsonLet's do this one backwards. Let's start with suggestions for further reading. The suggestions come from Daniel Kasman, and one of the implications, for me anyway, is that the pleasure I take in the
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Video of the day. Trailer for Tony Scott's "Unstoppable"
The new Tony Scott film.
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Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Ridley Scott's "The Duellists"
Ben SimingtonHoward Blake’s duel cues and Prokofiev pastiches for Tony Scott’s debut film.
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Video Sundays: Flip Six Three Hole, or Football and The Great American Pastiche
Daniel KasmanIf only Robert Altman knew what his satire of football and war in MASH would bring us in the post-modern age...
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A Proper "Alien" Resurrection
Ben SimingtonThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences only got it half-right for Alien in 1980. To say that Ridley Scott’s commercial breakthrough was robbed of its Oscar for Best Art Direction/Set Direction
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Now in theaters: "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (Scott, USA)
Daniel KasmanWhat do we do with Tony Scott’s The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, another version of John Godey’s book (also adapted in 1974 by Joseph Sargent), and an old-school picture of conventional urban crime in an
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What is the 21st Century?: The Modern Director, Pt. 1
Ignatiy VishnevetskyWhat is the 21st Century? is the column where Ignatiy Vishnevetsky tries to find an answer to the titular question. *** Above: Michael Bay on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. "Who is
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Playing the game of catch-up
Daniel KasmanAfter the New York Film Festival, with its Views from the Avant-Garde and Nagisa Oshima sidebar, I haven’t had much time to see, let alone write-up films seen over the last couple weeks. Instead of