Tag Archive: Dennis Hopper

Cinema’s Greatest Scenes: #4 Blue Velvet

Every Friday I’m going to be highlighting and analysing some of cinema’s greatest scenes, or sequences depending on your definition. Some will be familiar, etched indelibly into the iconography of cinema, while others… Continue reading

About Schmidt’s Ending: What’s in Cinema’s Love for a Happy Finale?

*Note that there are indeed spoilers for About Schmidt…as the title would imply* Being unemployed, and probably unemployable, I’ve allowed myself the luxury of ploughing through old films like Quinten Tarantino in a… Continue reading

‘Easy Rider’ as a Reinvention of the Western Genre

Through a reinvention of the Western genre ‘Easy Rider’ examines the central contemporary preoccupations of New Hollywood; such as the failures of American Society with anti-hero protagonists suffering from alienation, disillusionment with the… Continue reading