Fight Club
In Part 23 of Deconstructing Cinema, Arpad Lukacs discusses the birth of a modern day religious sect in a scene taken from David Fincher’s 1999 film, Fight Club.
Fatal Attraction
Part 22 of Deconstructing Cinema will not be ignored; Jamie Suckley looks at Fatal Attraction and explores the origin of the Bunny Boiler phrase. Cover your animal’s eyes.
Blade Runner
What does being human mean? As 2019 approaches, we look to Blade Runner for this week’s Deconstructing Cinema to explore the deeper implications in Roy’s death.
Do The Right Thing
This week we take a trip to the Bronx with Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing where Lauren tells us about the fire hydrant scene for part 20 of Deconstructing Cinema
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Special guest Mark Patton, star of A Nightmare On Elm Street Part 2, writes this week’s edition of Deconstructing Cinema with a scene from The Talented Mr Ripley.
Donnie Darko
In part 18 of Deconstructing Cinema, Jonahh looks at the scene in Donnie Darko where Frank shows Donnie a time portal and instructs him to burn a house to the ground.
Pakeezah
We look to India and Kamal Amrohi’s 1972 romantic epic, Pakeezah for part 17 of Deconstructing Cinema with Meena Kumari’s passionate and bloody dance, Teer-E-Nazar.
The Mothman Prophecies
Part 16 of Deconstructing Cinema takes us to the scene in The Mothman Prophecies where Richard Gere and Alan Bates discuss precognition, prophecies and the paranormal.
Deconstructing Cinema – One Scene At A Time
Each week we take one scene from a movie and deconstruct it to reveal what kind of an impact they’ve had historically and culturally and what they say about us as a society.
Titanic
Titanic was called ‘the ship of dreams’ and it was, it really was. In part 15 of Deconstructing Cinema we take you back to the unsinkable ship and its infamous sinking.
All The President’s Men
Part 14 of Deconstructing Cinema takes us to an underground car park where Woodward and Deep Throat are discussing Watergate, slush funds and the intelligence community.
The Matrix
In part 13 of Deconstructing Cinema, Jonahh looks at the scene from The Matrix where Morpheus offers Neo a choice. Would you take the blue pill – or the red one?
JFK
Marking the 48th year of President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22nd 1963, Deconstructing Cinema looks at the Washington Memorial scene from JFK.
Showgirls
Jamie Suckley takes us into the world of Showgirls and asks you leave your inhibitions at the door as he discusses the infamous pool scene in part 11 of Deconstructing Cinema.
The Haunting
In Part 10 of Deconstructing Cinema we zoom in for a close-up of that chilling scene in the 1963 film, The Haunting where Eleanor asks “Whose hand was I holding?”
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