Kabbalah in Cinema

The Holy Fool and the Feather of Grace

Love as the Fifth-Dimensional Force

Kabbalistic Apocalypse in the Ruins of the Self

The Tree of Life and the Death of Death

The Tarot as Initiatory Cinema

Genesis to Revelation in One House

The Actress Doesn't Get Lost in the Role. The Role Gets Lost in the Actress.

The 216-Digit Name of God

The Knot That Stops Counting When It Is Untied

The Palindrome as Cosmology

The Bhagavad Gita Quoted by the Man Who Just Became Shiva

The Demon Isn't Evil — He's Just Following Orders

The Thirteenth Floor Maps the Gnostic Cosmos (Every Layer Has Its Demiurge)

The Replica That Requires Its Own Replica

The Machinist Is a Man Being Devoured by a Debt He Refuses to Name

Only God Forgives Is a Tarot Card Where the Son Must Cut Off His Own Hands to Face the Mother

The Skin I Live In Is a Golem Story, Ledgard's Creation Carries the Spark That Kills Him

Tokyo Godfathers Is a Nativity Where the Three Wise Men Are the Ones Being Reborn

Summer Wars Is About the Family as the Firewall the Digital World Cannot Compute

Barton Fink Is About a Man Who Worships the Common People and Refuses to Meet One

A Serious Man Is the Book of Job Told by a God Who Never Speaks From the Whirlwind

Soylent Green Is a Sacrament Run Backwards: the Dead Feed the Living, and Everyone Calls It Food

Snowpiercer Is a Gnostic Escape Story Disguised as a Revolution

Fanny and Alexander Is a War Between Two Fathers for the Soul of a Child Who Sees Ghosts

Chronos Speeds Time Up Until You See That Nothing Solid Was Ever There

Voyage of Time Films the Whole of Creation as a Single Prayer Addressed to a Silent Mother

Scanners Is a War Between Two Sons of the Same Father Over What the Gift Is For

The Limehouse Golem Is What Happens When a Woman Builds a Monster to Carry Her Own Verdict

Inglourious Basterds Burns History Down So Cinema Can Deliver the Justice History Withheld

Onmyoji Says the Man Who Holds Your True Name Holds You