Tag: Michael Caine

  • Christopher Nolan’s Fugue State: Inception

    Christopher Nolan’s Fugue State: Inception

    In his 1999 essay Celluloid Vs. Digital, Roger Ebert cites studies equating the experience of watching a movie to entering a fugue state: “film creates reverie, video creates hypnosis.” In other words, experiencing a film in the traditional manner, projected at 24 frames per second in a darkened theater, affects the brain in a way […]

  • At the Worst of Times, the Worst of Us: Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men

    At the Worst of Times, the Worst of Us: Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men

    Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men is, simply, one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. Repeat viewings never fail to overwhelm me with some of the strongest gut-level emotional reactions I’ve ever had to a movie. I can only talk about it in superlatives: it’s a near-religious experience. One of the movies that makes me […]