Indeed, it's one of my unrealized dreams to publish a close serial analysis of the film. One day I'll finally get it right.

Right, my point was just that personhood seems to be defined by other functions (ability to be responsible and therefore punished, fined—a bit like authorship in Foucault's telling). There's an interesting discussion of the concept in @grantbollmer.bsky.social and Guinness' The Influencer Factory.

Well, there's corporate personhood, but it doesn't seem like corporations can bear witness.

I would throw Jack Elam in there too, although he might ultimately be more associated with the western.

I find it hard to get my 6yo to watch non-animated content, but for some reason, the original Hocus Pocus went over well. Like Addams Family Values, though, it may require explanation of what a virgin is.

I've been doing some research on the arrival of psychopharmacology in Haiti during the Duvalier years, as documented in No Man is a Stranger by Erica Anderson (who also made the 1957 Albert Schweitzer film). The film isn't widely available yet but was recently redigitized by Syracuse U.

I am teaching a course on "close film analysis" in the spring where the main focus will be One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, but I'd like to show other important films on the topic in the second half of the course and it would be good to have at least one made outside of North America or Europe.