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Playing the Viewer like an Organ: Norman Bates as the Protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

Playing the Viewer like an Organ: Norman Bates as the Protagonist of Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho

Exploring the ways Alfred Hitchcock makes the audience root for Norman Bates in Psycho.

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAren BergstromApril 2, 2012Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, hero, horror, Janet Leigh, killer, manipulation, Marion Crane, Norman Bates, protagonist, Psycho Comment

Medieval as Modern: The Historical Accuracy of Kingdom of Heaven

Medieval as Modern: The Historical Accuracy of Kingdom of Heaven

Examining the historical sources behind Ridley Scott's medieval epic.

Essays, Jump Cuts: Random EssaysAren BergstromFebruary 20, 2012accuracy, Balian of Ibelin, Crusades, epic, historical, Kingdom of Heaven, Liam Neeson, medieval, Orlando Bloom, Saladin Comments

Satire and Prophecy in Terry Gilliam's Brazil

Satire and Prophecy in Terry Gilliam's Brazil

This great satire is as relevant as ever!

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAnton BergstromNovember 29, 2011Bob Hoskins, Brazil, dystopia, Ian Holm, Jonathan Pryce, Katherine Helmond, Michael Palin, Robert De Niro, satire, Terry Gilliam, Tom StoppardComment

What's in a remake?

What's in a remake?

Thoughts on how to make a good remake and why remakes are not inherently bad

Essays, Jump Cuts: Random EssaysAren BergstromNovember 20, 2011A Fistful of Dollars, Infernal Affairs, John Carpenter, remakes, Seven Samurai, The Departed, The Magnificent Seven, The Thing, The Thing (2011), Yojimbo Comment

Thoughts on The King's Speech, One Year Later

Thoughts on The King's Speech, One Year Later

Long live the King!

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAnton BergstromOctober 1, 2011Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, The King's Speech, The Silence of the Lambs, TIFF, Tom Hooper Comments

Joe Johnston’s “Imagined” America

Joe Johnston’s “Imagined” America

Nationalism and myth-making in Captain America: The First Avenger and The Rocketeer.

Essays, Movies TodayAnders BergstromAugust 4, 2011Captain America: The First Avenger, Howard Zinn, Joe Johnston, nationalism, superhero, The Rocketeer Comments

Transcendent Science Fiction: Pondering Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Transcendent Science Fiction: Pondering Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind

In anticipation of Super 8, Anton contemplates a Spielberg classic.

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAnton BergstromMay 29, 2011art, extraterrestrials, Francois Truffaut, Richard Dreyfus, science fiction, spirituality, Steven SpielbergComment

Lawrence of Arabia and the Intimacy of the Epic

Lawrence of Arabia and the Intimacy of the Epic

Is the label "epic" a valuable or meaningful label for a film at all?

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAnders BergstromFebruary 21, 2011David Lean, epic, Lawrence of Arabia, Peter O'Toole Comments

2001: A Space Odyssey and My Evolution as a Cinephile

2001: A Space Odyssey and My Evolution as a Cinephile

I once told a friend I thought 2001 was boring, but that I liked that about it.

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAnton BergstromFebruary 12, 20112001: A Space Odyssey, human evolution, outer space, science fiction, Stanley Kubrick Comments

The Rogue Warrior and the Dirty Town in Yojimbo

The Rogue Warrior and the Dirty Town in Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo gave birth to a whole new kind of cinema.

(Re)Viewing the Canon, EssaysAren BergstromFebruary 11, 2011Akira Kurosawa, samurai, Sanjuro, Toshiro Mifune, YojimboComment

Shutter Island and the Trauma of Modernity

Shutter Island and the Trauma of Modernity

Is Shutter Island just a thrilling genre exercise? Or is it rather a powerful reflection on the delusions of Modernity and the trauma of violence?

Essays, Movies TodayAnders BergstromFebruary 8, 2011Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island, traumaComment