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The Afterlives of The Shining
On simulating Stanley Kubrick's film in Doctor Sleep and Ready Player One
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John Menick
The Diaries of Raúl Ruiz
On the diaries of the Chilean filmmaker as translated by Jaime Grijalba Gomez
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John Menick
Return to Mondo Kim’s
On Kim's Video and a recent screening of Mondo New York
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John Menick
The Last (AI) Picture Show
The first in a series of short pieces on artificial intelligence and visual culture
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John Menick
Escape from New York
On "Escape from New York" ripoffs, forgotten film genres, bad acting, and rise of the carceral state
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John Menick
The Narco-Image on Do Not Research
A new essay on addiction and images
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John Menick
JLG
On the mad master of the French New Wave
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John Menick
The Premises exhibition, Camel Collective, and Adorno's infamous phone call
This week’s newsletter stitches together two texts: one short and one long; one published in 2019, the other published this month.
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John Menick
Beginnings
A speaking machine, hauntings, an exhibition review, Krapp, and the actor Patrick Magee
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John Menick
The End Is Never the End, Part One
On haunted house films, part one of two
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John Menick
An Air of Vengeance
On invention of photography and generative AI
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John Menick
Albedo Features
Two new excerpts from the Mars Project
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John Menick
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