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Deconstructing Cinema

Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut

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. More…

Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut
Frequency

Part 43 of Deconstructing Cinema involves the issue of time as Patrick takes a look at a scene from Frequency and wonders if he’ll be able to change events in the past. More…

Frequency
Contact

Part 25 of Deconstructing Cinema. Jonahh explores a scene from Contact and discovers that the truth might not necessarily be out there, but rather within. More…

Contact
The Haunting

In this latest Deconstructing Cinema, we zoom in for a close-up of that chilling scene from Robert Wise’s 1963 film, The Haunting, where Eleanor asks “Whose hand was I holding?” More…

The Haunting
Birth

Norman Buckley brings us an in-depth look at two scenes from Jonathan Glazer’s Birth, a film about the symbols of love, the symbols of loss, and the nature of projection. More…

Birth
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. More…

The Mothman Prophecies
American Psycho

Jack brings us Deconstructing Cinema #33 with a look at American Psycho, consumerism and a scene that culminates in the realisation of Patrick Bateman’s loss of self. More…

American Psycho
Signs

In part 35 of Deconstructing Cinema, Jonahh explores the alien scene from M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 sci-fi thriller, and finds a trinity of fate, fear and faith. More…

Signs
The Village

We venture into The Village for part 81 in Deconstructing Cinema with a scene from M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 film as Patrick discusses manufactured realities in a post 9/11 world. More…

The Village
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind

Part 67 of Deconstructing Cinema sees Patrick looking at the most profound moment in mankind’s existence with Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. More…

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Pulp Fiction

In part 40 of Deconstructing Cinema, Arpad tries to find out what’s inside the mysterious briefcase in the final scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. More…

Pulp Fiction
The Godfather

Lito Velasco takes a look at a scene from Francis Ford Coppola’s classic film The Godfather as he discusses the idea of choice in part 63 of Deconstructing Cinema. More…

The Godfather
JFK

History has a way of repeating itself. In Deconstructing Cinema we take a look at a pivotal scene in Oliver Stone’s JFK with a conversation between Garrison and X that takes place near the Washington Monument. More…

JFK
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. More…

All The President’s Men
Minority Report

In part 66 of Deconstructing Cinema, Jonahh explores a scene from Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi hit and wonders if the film’s predictions have already come true. More…

Minority Report

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