At their hearts, Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood share a key notion: your greatest asset (some pun intended) too often ends up being your greatest curse. Read More
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Elizabeth Cantwell was the Managing Editor of Bright Wall/Dark Room until early 2016. She is the author of one full-length book of poetry, Nights I Let The Tiger Get You (Black Lawrence Press, 2014) and a chapbook, Premonitions (Grey Book Press, 2014). She lives in Los Angeles with her husband (writer/director Chris Cantwell) and their two sons, and teaches Humanities at The Webb Schools.
t’s lowbrow. It’s juvenile. It’s crude; it’s course. It’s impulse, not intellect. It siphons its humor from someone else’s pain.... Read More
I am not a Carrie. I am not a Miranda or a Samantha or a Charlotte. I’m also not a... Read More
Lost Highway is no exception to Lynch’s disregard for linear and/or comprehensible story lines. And yet it solicits more curiosity than frustration. Read More
Chris & Elizabeth Cantwell, discuss one of the most legendary films of the 1960s. Read More
Watching The Big Sleep, the question bouncing around in my head was not is this a good film, but rather, why is this a good film, and how? Read More
Jaws is a story about men. Read More
You cannot love Twin Peaks unless you love Agent Cooper; the liminal space of the town is the liminal space of Cooper’s own reality. Read More
American Hustle captures us because it gets us. Read More
The Tree of Life is, really, a cinematic experience narrated in prayer. Read More
On Upstream Color: I see you. Do you see me. Read More