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Travis Bean is co-founder of Colossus. He writes about the impact of art on his life and the world around us.
Ride Lonesome | The Art Of Simplicity
I have a new motto for 2025, and perhaps for the rest of my life: keep it simple. The lack of simplicity has ruined this world. Little did we know that by complicating everything we do, we complicate the simple…
La Haine | It’s How You Land
Beginning and ending a movie with the same quote might seem like a cheesy thing to do. And maybe sometimes it is. But upon watching La Haine this past weekend, I think I saw the most impressive and captivating case…
Film Noir | Dreams And The Subconscious
Now that I have a region-free Blu-ray player, I’ve been able to cycle through my Columbia Noir boxsets. Film noir is a genre I’ve always loved, and these lesser-known movies have really opened up a whole new world to me.…
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Explained | Blessed Are The Forgetful
Welcome to our Colossus Movie Guide for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. This guide contains our detailed library of content covering key aspects of the movie’s plot, ending, meaning, and more. We encourage your comments to help us create…
The Undercover Man | Finding Clarity In A Mad World
Thank god for Tony Rayns, whose commentary for The Undercover Man made me realize what makes Joseph H. Lewis’s aesthetic so interesting. Lewis wasn’t an auteur, somebody who imposed a trademarked look and feel to each and every work. Instead,…
Eraserhead | A Call To Love Henry
Henry has the face and demeanor of a debilitated soul – hapless, dour, confused, drained, beleaguered. This world he inhabits – with its grey, smoke-filled air hanging like a fog, with its lifeless factories buzzing and churning ad nauseum, with…
I Love You, David Lynch
The relationship one has with art is a special thing. Sometimes a painting or a piece of music or a film speaks to you directly, comments on something you’re going through or have gone through, and it instantly makes sense.…
3 Film Noirs | Beyond the Femme Fatale
It can be tough to find your footing with film noir at the beginning of your cinephile journey. What can help you better understand the ideology and message of the film movement? Well, you can obviously start with the classics,…
A Cinephile’s Guide to Film Noir
Welcome to the Cinephile’s Guide to Film Noir. Here, you will find all the essential details about film noir for any budding cinephile who’s looking for more information on the film movement. What is Film Noir? French for “black film,”…
Variety Lights (1950) | What Fellini learned from Neorealism
As Pauline Kael rightfully points out in her review, there are two particular sequences in Variety Lights that stand out. The first is when Checco’s troupe walks along a backcountry road, beautifully lit and framed as they trudge along, and…
My Cinephile Journey | Federico Fellini
The first entry into My Cinephile Journey will be the films of Federico Fellini. Here, I will house all the different articles I will write as I burn through the Criterion Collection’s “Essential Fellini” boxset, which includes 14 of Fellini’s…
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