Joseph Jon Lanthier

1 week ago | slantmagazine.com | Joseph Jon Lanthier |Jake Cole

As part of an essay cycle that roves the cinema of the 1990s for vestiges of intelligent life, Phillip Lopate identifies several attributes that typify the early style of writer turned directors: creatively interpolated exposition, admirably ham-fisted mise-en-scène, and skewedly erudite characters among them.

Dec 9, 2024 | slantmagazine.com | Joseph Jon Lanthier |Jake Cole

Although the extent to which the iconically dark-shaded and silver-streaked Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) can truly be accepted as a Federico Fellini surrogate is a source of endlessly inconsequential debate, we tend to take the lightly fictive director at his word when he dismally claims that he had planned to make a truly honest and direct film this time around.

Dec 9, 2024 | slantmagazine.com | Joseph Jon Lanthier |Jake Cole

From its Southwestern skyscraper surfaces to its bush- and junk car-pocked bedrock, there’s something slightly off-kilter about the America of Wim Wenders’s Paris, Texas.

Sep 20, 2023 | slantmagazine.com | Joseph Jon Lanthier |Ed Gonzalez

In the 1960s, there were few cameramen who shared Nicolas Roeg’s ability to render sirenic, jittery sensuality at 24 frames per second—and this was an era whose dominant culture arguably cracked open and redefined the sensual palate.