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Lessons From Superman’s Newest Flight

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

When it was first announced in early 2010, the idea of a new Superman movie prompted a mix of eye-rolling and excitement. On the one hand, wasn’t there just another Superman reboot in 2006? On the other, Dark Knight’s Christopher Nolan would be a creative force behind the project. It’s fitting, then, that the movie it became, the Zack Snyder-directed Man of Steel — Nolan was a producer and co-writer …

Ethan Hawke, left, and Julie Delpy arrive at the LA premiere of "Before Midnight" at the Director's Guild of America's Theatre on tuesday, May 21, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

‘Before Midnight’: A Very Long Conversation Has Its Moments

Saturday, June 15, 2013

Richard Linklater made his name in 1991 with Slacker, a low-key, discursive ramble through Austin that introduced a new generation and spontaneous form of filmmaking that concealed surprising intelligence and artfulness beneath its laid-back style. Linklater has gone on to pursue a wonderfully eclectic career, hopping from sci-fi animation ( Waking Life ) …

A Saintly Superman Comes to Save a Fallen Planet

Saturday, June 15, 2013

A colleague of mine made the astute observation that superhero blockbusters have something in common with medieval religious art. Both rely on rigidly fixed iconographies drawn from a narrow range of canonical subject matter. The individual creator may vary the style, but the terms of the representation are governed by a larger divine or quasi-divine cosmic order: hence the endless variations on the …

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