Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011)

brightwalldarkroom:

by Edward Montgomery

Impossible Nostalgia, or

What was it that was written above the gates of Hell? “Surrender hope, all ye who enter here,” or some variation thereof?

Anyway, I just thought I’d toss a warning your way—your eyeballs will bleed, and it’ll be a while before we…

a bright wall in a dark room.: Keanu Reeves Week: Point Break (1991)

My unnecessarily dense and slightly overwrought piece on Point Break.  The winter does this to me.

brightwalldarkroom:

by Edward Montgomery

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophical wreck.”

-Immanuel Kant

The ocean only seems overt.

Though Heraclitus has been immortalized contemplating the quiet flux and power of a river over time, to me,…

Drive (2011)

A piece I did for BWDR - I hope you’ll read it.

brightwalldarkroom:

“THERE’S A HUNDRED THOUSAND STREETS IN THIS CITY.”

by Edward Montgomery

Step one for this essay is the communal recitation of our postmodernist plight:

“Nothing is simple these days. Little is whole. We are part technology, part broken-family, part digital, part unknowable, and…

On Attending The Telluride Film Festival, part 2

brightwalldarkroom:

by Edward Montgomery

There is a strange form of community in Telluride that forms around the festival. Telluride’s population is often split between thrill-seeking tourists, Hollywood titans on reclusive vacations, and simple townies that have come as part of a mid-life crisis or as an…

Time Travel Week: Groundhog Day (1993)

brightwalldarkroom:

MY YEARS ARE NOT ADVANCING AS FAST AS YOU MIGHT THINK.

by Edward Montgomery

…So many things have happened.
You’ve finally become the man
that I had hoped for
But alas,
I am no longer among the living.
I suppose such is
the way of the world.

— Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi

I had…

Inception (2010)

by Edward Montgomery

“Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a nonthinking process. Because definitions are a product of rigid, formal thinking, quality cannot be defined.”

“When I say, ‘Quality cannot be defined,’ I’m really saying formally, ‘I’m…