The Speed of Meaning

The Phoenician Scheme and The Women: A defense of rapid-fire art

Jan 3 • Lux Cross

December 2025

Coda: Wintering

Home (and hiding) for the Holidays

Dec 20, 2025 • Lux Cross

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Throwing Voices

Creative control in Woody Allen's Zelig and Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein

Dec 6, 2025 • Lux Cross

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November 2025

Sunday Coffee

Deleted scenes from Bodacious: Making something of yourself in The Hobbit and Pumping Iron

Nov 23, 2025 • Lux Cross

Bodacious

Making something of yourself in The Hobbit and Pumping Iron

Nov 16, 2025 • Lux Cross

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Sunday Coffee

Deleted scenes from All the Feels: Post-sync in Spike Jonze's Her

Nov 9, 2025 • Lux Cross

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All The Feels

How Spike Jonze and M. Night Shyamalan make us believe in what we see—and feel what can’t be seen.

Nov 1, 2025 • Lux Cross

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October 2025

Scale Models

This little replication of life: Synecdoche, New York & Guest of Cindy Sherman

Oct 18, 2025 • Lux Cross

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Sunday Coffee

Deleted scenes from this week's column, "Fight Club"

Oct 5, 2025 • Lux Cross

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Fight Club

In Lady Bird and Clouds of Sils Maria, the actors make their characters perfectly clear

Oct 4, 2025 • Lux Cross

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September 2025

Sunday Coffee

Deleted scenes from this week's column, "History of a Memory"

Sep 28, 2025 • Lux Cross

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History of a Memory

Maybe storytelling isn't a metaphor but an interface: Past Lives and Blade Runner 2049.

Sep 27, 2025 • Lux Cross

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