Just a guy with a blog (or five) and a love of film, liquids and words. Like WSB, I eat images. Like everybody else, I keep getting older; I just happen to write about it, from a particular angle, on the internet where everybody can see. Sometimes people pay me to write things. I also make little mov

Architectural, Event, Excessive, Flux, Hermeneutics, Joyful, Layered, Lyrical, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Repetition, Science fiction, Sensual, Slangy, Sprawling, Urban

Trained in philosophy at Harvard under Stanley Cavell before the cinema at AFI, Malick’s slim oeuvre foregrounds this inheritance: each of his four features to date is a period piece of American history; each trains an eye on the natural world (and its relationship with humans and human technologie

Atmospheric, Beautiful , Chance, Citational, Contemplative, Dreamy, Ebullient, Elegant, Event, Feminine, Figurative, Fleeting, Flux, Hypnotic, Illusive, Joyful, Lyrical, Melancholy, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Polychromatic, Primal, Quiet, Rhythmic, Self-reflection, Silence, Smart, Sprawling, Sublime, Tragic, Tranquil, Violent, Visceral

Banal, Baroque, Clean, Clever, Deconstructive, Decorative, Demure, Domestic, Eclectic, Feminist, Flux, Graffitists and cartoonists, Mythic, Perverse, Playful, Pop, Pristine, Profane, Smart, Sprawling, Sublime, Visceral, Witty

Absurd, Anal, Architectural, Charming, Clean, Clever, Composed, Contemplative, Dissonant, Ebullient, Eclectic, Enigmatic, Experimental, Flux, Geometric, Industrial, Layered, Machinistic, Mathematical, Minimal, Organic, Quirky, Repetition, Spare, Surface, Whimsical