The Magic Lantern

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Episode 009 – The Thing from Another World

Posted November 23, 2015 • 00:34:36

The world changed in 1945. With the atomic bomb, a beast with unimaginable destructive power was unleashed. The world changed again in 1950 when Senator...

Episode 008 – No Country for Old Men

Posted November 9, 2015 • 00:52:10

There aren’t many films more personal to me than Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men (2007). I grew up at the foot of the Wichita Mountains...

Episode 007 – The Uninvited

Posted October 23, 2015 • 00:40:25

Why do I enjoy this film so much? In the simplest terms, The Uninvited (1944) features a big house by the sea I really want to live in. Put that together...

Episode 006 – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Posted October 12, 2015 • 00:57:51

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) ripped into my life on Thanksgiving 1984 and I have, gratefully, never fully recovered. It was spawned from the...

Episode 005 – Mahanagar

Posted October 2, 2015 • 00:35:51

What does it mean to set out in an unknown world, independent and eager? What does it mean to set out in a world when you have never known independence...