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Paul

Johnson

Gainesville, Florida

About Me

If you are a patient sort of soul, feel free to visit my irregularly updated blog:

Expressive Esoterica.

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The Power and the Glory

Kind of like CITIZEN KANE if CITIZEN KANE kind of sucked. Fascinating Juvenilia from Preston Sturges mirrors KANE's narrative structure kinda-sorta-well-not-really, but fascinating doesn't equal good, since it's rather literal minded and rather maudlin, and Tracy, who was generally electric in this period of his career, appears a little overwhelmed.

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Shadow of a Doubt

The Big Sleep

The Royal Tenenbaums

White Heat

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Style

Auteur-driven
Melancholy
Nouvelle vague
Canonical classics
Shh!—silent cinema
Pop Art

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Paul Johnson

25Dec11

I currently have piece on Christmas movies written in collaboration with a good friend now up at Cinespect. http://cinespect.com/?p=2617

Paul Johnson

23Dec11

So I realized this might be a good place to advertise some of my film-related publications. I'm currently writing for the online film magazine Cinespect, and I now have piece on Chaplin's The Gold Rush (playing a week-long engagement at the Film Forum in NY) currently up at the site. http://cinespect.com/?p=2612

Laali

22Jul11

Hi Paul, thanks for fanning my Indian avant-garde list. Ummm... The pic in your avatar is simply one of my favourite paintings of all, everytime I visit the Prado Museum here in Madrid I watch it for hours. Have you seen Eustache's film on it? http://mubi.com/films/hieronymous-boschs-garden-of-delights It's an amazing one, with a very peculiar interpretation of Bosch's "Garden of Delights" :)