Griff Maloney, Author at Bright Wall/Dark Room

JoinedJune 7, 2022

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Griff Maloney is a writer and experimental filmmaker in Los Angeles. Born in New York and educated in Vermont, he’s firmly strapped to the world of movies and art. He tries to take a lot of pictures of flowers.

Stealing Reason from God: Theft in Time Bandits and The Fisher King

Griff Maloney·

Issue 122: Heists

If Time Bandits is a child's polemic against greed and selfishness that ultimately ends in the reveal of the truth of the universe, then The Fisher King is a movie in which our hero steals the truth about himself back from the cold hands of the universe and an uncaring God.

The Power of Art (To Make Me Weep)

Griff Maloney·

Issue 108: Melodrama

Art is the high drama and the low drama, and often, as Schama shows us, it’s the reflection of the artists’ own life, their fear, pain, joy, and frustrations, their family relationships, loves, and losses.