W.J.T. Mitchell

These are two books dedicated to the theory of images.  

Francis Bacon at the MET

Current retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Festival de Cannes 2009

Tetro:  Francis Ford Coppola

Quentin Tarantino's 'Inglourious Basterds'

Park Chan-Wook's 'Thirst'

Gaspar Noe:   'Enter the Void

Michael Haneke's  Black and White film 'The White Ribbon'

Limits of Control

Jim Jarmusch's latest film.  It kind of reminds me of a video loop in that it repeats identical motifs over and over, but with different scenes and characters.

Hunter MFA Thesis Exhibition

In his video  Sighting the Curve (at the Spring 2009 Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition), Martin Murphy displays the visual aesthetics of cinema while breaking down traditional cinematic structure and narrative.  His works displayed here convey the confusion, apathy, anxiety, depression, and desire for escape found in the modern, urban psyche.