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Dusan Ripley September 12, 2026 Essay Film

The Sound Arrives Late: Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the interval between the flash and the noise

Everything consequential in Oppenheimer happens at least twice: first as an event, then as an exhibit. A conversation in a Berkeley kitchen becomes a

Dusan Ripley September 11, 2026 Essay Film

A Room Nobody Is Allowed to Hear: On Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men (1957)

Six Dollars and Two Blocks About twenty-seven minutes into 12 Angry Men, a man who has been sitting quietly at the far end

Dusan Ripley September 10, 2026 Essay

In the Same Orbit as the Earth: “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (The Twilight Zone, January 15, 1960)

“I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (The Twilight Zone, January 15, 1960) puts the survivors of a crash down in a desert ninety-seven

Dusan Ripley September 10, 2026 Short Book

The Distance to the Ground: Falling, Looking, and the Manufacture of the Beloved in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

Vertigo (Paramount, 1958). Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor, from the novel D’entre les morts by Pierre Boileau

Dusan Ripley September 10, 2026 Essay

No One Said Earth: Third from the Sun, The Twilight Zone

The withheld world of “Third from the Sun” Four adults are playing cards. The table is glass, and for a moment the camera is

Dusan Ripley September 10, 2026 Essay

The Shape of Someone’s Waiting: Faces, Histories, and “The Four of Us Are Dying” (The Twilight Zone, 1960)

Three-Eighty a Night A man stands at the mirror of a rented room and works his jaw. He is not shaving and he is

Dusan Ripley September 9, 2026 Essay

Second Person: On The Twilight Zone, “What You Need” (CBS, 25 December 1959)

A man in a bathrobe comes out onto the pavement to look at the accident. He has a woman with him, and the two

Dusan Ripley September 9, 2026 Essay Film

Where the Floor Is: Cary Grant and the Art of Falling

The Trick In the playroom at the top of the Seton house in Holiday (1938), Cary Grant turns a back somersault. He is playing

Dusan Ripley September 9, 2026 Essay Film Short Book

The Courtyard of the Visible: Seeing, Guilt, and the Architecture of Desire in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window

The film begins by quoting the theater and then quietly falsifying the quotation.Three bamboo blinds ascend over the window. They do not rise together;

Dusan Ripley September 9, 2026 Essay

Whoever Is Left: On “And When the Sky Was Opened” (The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 11; CBS, December 11, 1959)

The first thing the broadcast shows is a covering. Before any face, before a name spoken by someone who could later be asked

Dusan Ripley September 8, 2026 Essay Short Book

Isn’t That What the Registry Said? – The Twilight Zone, Season 1, Episode 10 — “Judgment Night.” Written by Rod Serling. Directed by John Brahm. First broadcast on CBS, December 4, 1959.

The number is spoken twice, and the two men who speak it are not the same man, though they share a name and a

Five Facts and a Lifetime: Charles Beaumont’s “Perchance to Dream” (The Twilight Zone, 27 November 1959)

Dusan Ripley September 7, 2026 Essay

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The Sound Arrives Late: Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and the interval between the flash and the noise

A Room Nobody Is Allowed to Hear: On Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men (1957)

In the Same Orbit as the Earth: “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” (The Twilight Zone, January 15, 1960)

The Distance to the Ground: Falling, Looking, and the Manufacture of the Beloved in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo

No One Said Earth: Third from the Sun, The Twilight Zone

The Shape of Someone’s Waiting: Faces, Histories, and “The Four of Us Are Dying” (The Twilight Zone, 1960)

Second Person: On The Twilight Zone, “What You Need” (CBS, 25 December 1959)

Where the Floor Is: Cary Grant and the Art of Falling

The Courtyard of the Visible: Seeing, Guilt, and the Architecture of Desire in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window

Whoever Is Left: On “And When the Sky Was Opened” (The Twilight Zone, season 1, episode 11; CBS, December 11, 1959)

Isn’t That What the Registry Said? – The Twilight Zone, Season 1, Episode 10 — “Judgment Night.” Written by Rod Serling. Directed by John Brahm. First broadcast on CBS, December 4, 1959.

Five Facts and a Lifetime: Charles Beaumont’s “Perchance to Dream” (The Twilight Zone, 27 November 1959)

JE REVIENS: Absence, Naming, and the Architecture of Guilt in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca

Enough – On “Time Enough at Last,” The Twilight Zone, Season One, Episode Eight — CBS, 20 November 1959

The Expedient Exaggeration: Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest

The Man Who Built a Door – On Roger Corman’s The Premature Burial (1962)