Youth Without Youth takes us through a strange loop that demands us both cognitively and visually to ask similar questions…
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Francis Ford Coppola
The third rose
April 9, 2008
"Youth Without Youth" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Gun violence, sexual congress, female nudity,…
Repossessing the past
April 8, 2008
By some sort of happy coincidence—or to use the surrealist term referenced by Jeremy Biles, “objective chance”—I watched Youth Without…
Realizing Eliade’s Dream
February 24, 2008
Francis Ford Coppola has made Eliade whole again. He has given him back to us. Youth Without Youth is a…
Deciphered by means of a perfected computer
February 19, 2008
Seen with a genealogical eye, Youth Without Youth speaks to the sheer danger of the sacred as the robust object…
The persistence of memory
February 1, 2008
Francis Ford Coppola’s rendition of Mircea Eliade’s novel Youth Without Youth opens with a montage of clocks woozily bending. These…