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Gordon Inman Cinema Essays: In Memoriam Of Monte Hellman

Apr 26
5 min

Gordon Inman Cinema Essays: In Memoriam Of Monte Hellman

Trigger Warning: Blood Local Film Historian Gordon Inman shares his favorite films of the recently passed Director Monte Hellman. On April 20th, 2021, we lost one of the most unique voices in American cinema and the only true arthouse giant to emerge from the Roger Corman school of filmmaking. This article was written before the Covid-19 pandemic but previously unpublished, and the text is unchanged (including at least one reference to Hellman as a living filmmaker). To put i

Gordon's Precious Obscurities Part 4: 25 Underrated Films To Check Out

Feb 1
6 min

Gordon's Precious Obscurities Part 4: 25 Underrated Films To Check Out

25 obscure films that local film historian Gordon Inman recommends! Hearts of the World (D.W. Griffith, 1918) - After the one-two punch of Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, Griffith traveled to France to film battle scenes for this Great War yarn during the Great War. It’s an incredible feat that directors were still gaining notoriety for doing half a century later. To Griffith’s simultaneous credit and discredit, he clearly would have taken a camera to the Civil War for Bir

2020 Trends: Gordon Inman's State Of The Medium

Jan 25
4 min

2020 Trends: Gordon Inman's State Of The Medium

Chattanooga film historian Gordon Inman shares his final thoughts on the year 2020 for the film industry, locally and globally. In modern American society, which, for now, I will define as the beginning of the baby boom to roughly March 12th, 2020, people made something of a hobby of celebrating feats of low-stakes endurance as a staple of formidable character. These feats almost exclusively boil down to the following formula: [experiential noun] is not truly [uncomfortable o

Gordon's Precious Obscurities Part 2: 25 Underrated Films To Check Out

Dec 7, 2020
6 min

Gordon's Precious Obscurities Part 2: 25 Underrated Films To Check Out

25 obscure films that local film historian Gordon Inman recommends! Shoes (Lois Weber, 1916) - After years of only being canonized for the use of split-screen effects in 1913’s Suspense, Lois Weber has finally entered the film lexicon as Griffith’s pioneering equal. Her now-consentaneous masterwork, Shoes, is unsettling for its portrait of puritanical hypocrisy and scathing critique on unregulated capitalism’s effects on working-class families (particularly its young women),

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