Patrick Brown
Patrick S. Brown is a film- and game-loving storyteller and avid dungeon master. When he’s not rollerblading or eating pasta, he’s working on his PhD in Cinema Arts, with a focus on Weimar cinema, war games, and play spaces.
Essays written by Patrick:
- Scrooged – In Cynical Defense, December 20, 2017
- The Last Picture Show – First Viewing: The Cinematic American Experience, December 13, 2017
- Lost in Translation – Related Review: Like Someone in Love, December 8, 2017
- Casablanca – The Genius of the System, November 28, 2017
- Malcolm X – Scenessential: Pilgrimage to Mecca, November 15, 2017
- The Phantom Carriage – Filmography: Victor Sjöström, October 27, 2017
- The Phantom Carriage – Opening Statement, October 24, 2017
- Blade Runner – Photographs and Death, October 10, 2017
- Daisies – Related Review: Pearls of the Deep, October 6, 2017
- Daisies – Photomontage and Feminism, October 6, 2017
- Daisies – Opening Statement, October 3, 2017
- It Happened One Night – Scenessential: A Hitchhiker's Guide, September 21, 2017
- Reds – Related Review: October: Ten Days That Shook the World, September 15, 2017
- Fitzcarraldo – Irony in Denial, August 31, 2017
- The Cinematic Odyssey, July 13, 2017
- Starship Troopers – The Quato Trilogy, June 7, 2017
- Starship Troopers – Opening Statement, June 5, 2017
- Badlands – Shut Doors: On Malick, Heidegger, Music, and Faust, May 25, 2017
- Being John Malkovich – The Artist's Abyss, May 17, 2017
- Jeanne Dielman – Related Review: No Home Movie, May 12, 2017
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – The Hawksian Women: Dorothy and Lorelei, May 1, 2017
- Trainspotting – The Neo-Macho Canon; or, Masculinity After the Wall, March 29, 2017
- The Great Dictator – Filmography: Charlie Chaplin's Mutual Shorts, March 15, 2017
- All About Eve – Framing the Feud, March 1, 2017
- M – In Context: On Murder, Kangaroo Courts, and Ambivalent Politics, February 21, 2017
- In the Mood for Love – Shattered Time, February 9, 2017
- Touch of Evil – Framing Borders, February 2, 2017
- No Country for Old Men – Related Review: The Road, December 8, 2016
- Metallica: Some Kind of Monster – Heroes and Villains Past Their Prime, November 16, 2016
- All That Heaven Allows – Before All That Heaven Allows: Sirkian Melodrama in Nazi Germany, October 13, 2016
- Intolerance – Making Myths, September 6, 2016
The Cinessential Podcasts
- Episode 25: Malcolm X, December 6, 2017
- Episode 21: Reds, September 15, 2017