Mark Peranson
The End of Cinema: La última película
By Phil Coldiron | | CS56, Features, From Cinema Scope Magazine
By Phil Coldiron What comes at the end of cinema? Not what comes after cinema—a good question for marketing gurus like Spielberg and Lucas and Cameron to lock themselves in a room and argue over until they expire, choking on their own hot air—but right there at the end, in death tranquil or terrifying or…
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CS52 Editor’s Note
By Mark Peranson | | Columns, CS52, From Cinema Scope Magazine
As far as I’ve been able to tell—from having had the misfortune to watch some or all of close to a thousand films so far this year—the quality of product available to festivals in 2012 is inferior to 2011. But that doesn’t excuse some of the stinkers that are making their way over to North…
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World Out of Order: Tony Scott’s Vertigo
By Cinema Scope | | Cinema Scope Online
By Christoph Huber and Mark Peranson Regularly dismissed by critics as an ADD action hack director, Tony Scott’s sixth collaboration with Jerry Bruckheimer has a title that can be taken as a provocation: Déjà Vu seems to invite glib puns about the recurrence of heated fast cuts and heavily filtered celluloid, of slick surfaces and…
Read More The Decade in Review | Mark Peranson
By Mark Peranson | | CS42, The Decade In Review
When I think of Role Models (2008), the film I’ve seen more often than any other in the last decade—except maybe Colossal Youth—the word that comes to mind is wise. The best of recent American comedies, i.e., the most particular, have trouble off the continent because of their particularities—you might say a discrete sense of…
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