I went to the movies and never woke up...

I went to the movies and never woke up...

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HOW TO MAKE A MOVIE WHEN NO ONE CAN TELL YOU NO
Figgis’ “Megadoc”, Coppola’s “Megalopolis”, and the Price of Doing It Yourself in an Industry Where Freedom Comes With a Receipt
 • Patrick Kennelly
Cinematic Orphans: EDEN and the Pleasure of Watching Civilized People Come Apart
Bad Ideas, Harsh Conditions, and Ron Howard Finding a Sharper Edge
 • Patrick Kennelly
AGAINST THE NOISE: Mark Strand, W.S. Merwin, and the Poetic Refusal of American Spectacle
How Two Poets Listened Their Way Through a Century of American Art
 • Patrick Kennelly
Cinematic Orphans: WHAT THE CROWD CAME TO SEE: Abdellatif Kechiche’s "Black Venus" and the Labor of Being Watched
A film dismissed on arrival not for what it shows, but for how long and how relentlessly it refuses to stop showing—mirroring the very crowd behavior it…
 • Patrick Kennelly
FLICKER IN THE RUINS: Tarkovsky’s Exiled Vision and the Nostalghia of 1+1=1
Tracing how a fragile light and an impossible equation express the ache of a homeland out of reach
 • Patrick Kennelly
THE MISPLACED AUTEUR
Leos Carax, "It’s Not Me", His Cinematic Doppelgängers, and the Battle for His Own Myth
 • Patrick Kennelly
Witching Hour: THE ECCLESIASTES MACHINE
On Horror, Commerce, and the Viral Bones of Lionsgate’s Haunted Empire — part of "The Witching Hour", a special series honoring the only time of the…
 • Patrick Kennelly
I went to the movies and never woke up...
I went to the movies and never woke up...
A dispatch from the content vortex — where culture, cinema, and too much screen time blur into one man’s doomed attempt to make sense of it all.

I went to the movies and never woke up...

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