The terrific quality encircling Parallel Mothers (2021), Pedro Almodóvar’s latest film, is the constant homage to Alfred Hitchcock. Not to imply that the cult favorite Spanish director needs to borrow at all because he’s got a flavor and color all his own but he has fun adding some patt...
Before this though, the tone is set with black-and-white cinematography of the workers’ strike that quickly turns to color. My hunch is that Demy wanted to promote the seriousness of the situation and alert the audience that they were not watching a rosy musical with tap-along tunes. There...
Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product. “I wanted to see if he was okay,” explains Christi, one o...
This model is the most logical one since it stands to reason that complex things are less easily predictable than simple ones. I also tested models with alternative mediational patterns. The one reversing the sequence of the mediators was not supported, while the one testing the parallel ...
NEWSREADER: The main stories so far: Jimmy Savile drops dead at the Stoke Mandeville Boxing Day bash—but the patients are far from mourning. CORRESPONDENT:The majority, if not all of them, are extremely relieved that he’s now dead, although I suspect that some of them will be sorry that...
Coraline, an adventurous girl, discovers a secret door in her new home that leads to an alternate world mirroring her own life but seemingly perfect. However, this parallel reality harbors sinister secrets. The 'Other Mother' (Teri Hatcher), who rules this realm, tries to keep Coraline ...
It is here that Lakoff and Johnson's influential concept of "conceptual metaphor" comes into prominence. Cognitive linguistics, the discipline in which the concept originated in the early 1980s, maintains the view according to which thought is "largely metaphorical, making use of the same sensory...
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Coraline, an adventurous girl, discovers a secret door in her new home that leads to an alternate world mirroring her own life but seemingly perfect. However, this parallel reality harbors sinister secrets. The 'Other Mother' (Teri Hatcher), who rules this realm, tries to keep Coraline ...
Frenzy (1972) is a latter-day Alfred Hitchcock film that returns the masterful director to his roots in London, England, Hitchcock’s country of origin, and where his early films were made. As with numerous other Hitchcock stories, the protagonist is falsely accused of murder and struggles mig...